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THE N&VS AND OBSERVER, TUESDAY, MAY 71 , 4 1 , build, was also rehewn for hi fin aiorttons and his great speed Re attributed. In a great measure, th success of his many romantic adventures f the courage and al most human Intelligence of Vetl lantlff. and It Is noted that he "bitterly bemoaned .hi death." The horee 'was of chestnut hue. with a f . 1 1 tthlk rMph.ll ..H..lu Ik. fhe Newi and Obicrrer f.eni & Obunrer Pub. Co. ' toumt MWDUA BOX. RICHARD a BATTUE. strong bond between thm. Soma yesrg ago th University conferred upon him th degr of U D which he worthily wore. Th lev which he bor his aim mater was as pur and as lasting Ss that of any love of hi life, and at th commsnccment. whli h Is shortly to be held,' every loyal ion of that Institution will feel right Christian character. H lived long; be llvd well. in lif was gentle, And the elements ao mixed tn him, that natur might aland up And say to all th world, This was s man SAVOYARD'S LETTER Raleigh I la mourning, ; not ly Rgltlgh but all NftrtA Carolina in th peaceful and quist passing to tils reward of Hon. Richard H. Battle, SOME OF THE OLD GUARD. who died at Rex Hospital on Sunday night. II had been In falling health LEADER IN U)l ( ATIOV. on of the old guard, who led hi In It. In his opinion the ConstttU- troop In the political riot when Grant t,on' "ur "uons. our soil, our t. . ..a i-w c.'.ma, our sturdy people wo ill nil wa. Irldnt and Cockling an,d lu u0, u our robber tariff ahould " full Associated Press Reports ground. Roland was singularly at I no laat aummer and for torn In his annual address at th Annual tached to thi horse, and although month having been confined to hi that one of Its beat friends and one v. i . i - .. - tl O linpt nr thai THm, nC JtJtTir?l I a sjt-wtssj IILWfllia inr IMS macBimo rates , a TUESDAY, May II. 1111 Morning Tonic. ,',' (Henry George.) Who la there, wise, learned, dls t crest, or strong, who might not, were ( he to trace the Inner history of hi ,', Ilf. turn. Ilk ths Htolc Emperor, lo ' lv thank to the soda, thai by thl ' en and that on, and hr and there. good example hav been aet hi in. v aehl thoughts hav reached him. 1 and bappy opportunltlee opened be for himT H H WvjYW A , r' ' mrvT The foanlaln pen la aaeful 1 all sssr hsBa tribes : It better Uuui the gooeeful qalll unedl nrE rOVNTAI by ancient strlttea. TT.y It bought by ( Itrtstma shoo i pTS to give in I m lei Hevk, so he) flan push a atnpoer down In a bottle's ' Iterk. I'. bought about a doses, at ( Tlmpnn'a notion atorev, and uncbs, , aunt and coualn gave snri a many more; and If I do not loeei Uiees. they mn boon, you'd think ; but when I wsst to use litem they're always out , ' of Ink. And If some lak still linger t Inside the biassed snswtttiw. It gets uimmb asy Inge and stain mo red and srera. If I am tn a hurry. It rend my bnannt then: ttievss noth tng' rbw can worry sasisi like a foun tain prat I twist It ana I shake It, and tarn the thing avwstad. and them grt snad and break It nod stamp It In the ground. A fountain pen would . useuso mm. and U So with delight; of trouble It would una me It It would ' ejsdy write. The fountain pen I han dy for pushing corks. I think; It 'ssirely Is a dandy at splashing you wjth Ink I It has a doarn feature oom- IMOwNhwbJK It to men, hut no well-baJ- wouM use It ss a A NOTABMC OCCASION. SJlosd a-atares I of I J.. R and for some year waa an Th Twentieth of May In the year ( lnru,,lor , Mathematics and Greek 1112 will be ever memorable In th.n )h( I nlver(Iy . mttnmnr. read history or North Carolina, tor yesier day th Colonial I lame of North Carolina unveiled In th Rotunda of the Stat Capitol a tablet tn mem ory of the twenty-seven signers of -frte Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence The good women are alwaya foremnat In patriotic deed The Itmri have preserved much his tory ano been leader In commemor ating historical events They hav never served their "tale better than In presenting this tablet to com memorate the patrlotlm and coura. ensnus spirit of the twenty-aevn Beetch-Irtsh patriots who. on the j Twentieth of May. 1771. signed the incsu-uiaois e-rv.c i me famous Mecklenburg TcWatlan ofi'vernor and there sprung up be lndependence. ,w"'n ,h "lnr "n' V'mgr man Th. nreeence of a larse number of ;n Intimacy and a frlendahlp that represent all Va of patriotic sncletlea In Raleigh yesterday from all section of the State, who were entertained by the Wake County Damea and the re - ceptlon given last night added to theldmo as did Mr. Rattle. The admlra- pleasures of th history making event. The address of Chief .Justice Wal ter Clark was well worthy of preserv ation. It was an able and Valuable contribution to the hlatorv of the State, and will appear In full In the next laetie of the North Carolina Ite vlew. Issued as the supplement to Th Nrws and IHaserrer on the first Sunday tn June. A real parcel poat atlll hangs fire In Congress. The I'rogressiv Fur tner says to lis reader ' Farmer hsve themselves to thank for the adoption of this subterfuge If they had let their Congreaarnen know that they expecii.,1 a real parcels post snd not a sham, thev could have hud It And If they c to the polls net fall and re-elect the men who look to the Interests of th express companies be fore thinking of the farmers they hav no right to complain of 'trusts and the money power, and the 'ln terwsts.' Raleigh never web omed a delega tion to any gathering with more pleas lira than the Colonial Dames who i war here yesterdsy to th unvelllns AIftha men were as mllltsntly pa-1 ,,',, Mr. Rattle gave etronger evi trtotlc. thl eld Btste would be on'1,'r" or hi attachment to the I'M flra wito writing and preserving the I verity and Its cause than any man glories SAd unwritten history of his day It wss a personal grlof 1 si si ito him when the doors were closed .' Ths Democrats should name a ran- latter the war: It was a supreme hap dldat who will Wlo for - President. Piness when they were opened again Wlleon can carry tha Democratic and 1 1" It's' with his brother. Dr. Kemp P i gUo the independent and dissatisfied ' republicans. North Carolina Dem orrats will bs wis enough to hip name th New Jsrsey man. ' ' Tha surprise In soma rrlmariea 8at- .nraajf Wag thst a rota wa taken for trnttai "tales Senator. Inasmuch ss ther g t ha a primary it la atrangs that any, action should be taken in thla primary. . Jrh'tworry growvers had a har lima this year, hat they are of ths sort af folks who never permit trouble ( troubl them, .. . ttoipital for treatment, and paaaed away In that Institution to whoa wel fare and development he had devoted much of hi time for more than a quarter of a century. He waa one of the lending aplrlta In eetabllihlng th first hospital In Raleigh, which waa known a Bt. Luke Home and estab llahed by the Church of the Good Shepherd. Mr. Battle waa preeldvnt of Rt. I, like Home until, under the will of th late John Rex, ther waa sufficient money to eatabllih a hos pital that ihould he maintained by the whole city. Then, with a broad plrtt. he advocated the purchasing of St. Luke Hospital bv the Rex lloipltal Association, and was con tinuously president of the Board of Truateea, holding that position until the time of his death sii Anlnvlniv " hl 'llnees Its beneficent car. and beautiful In th fact that th resident of th Hospital Board who, for twenty-five year had rarely fail ed to visit th sick In It wards on (lunday afternoons, and who had never permitted any public or private business to keep him from the meet ing of Its board and the faithful ser vice to make It th pride of the rtly, that he. In his last days, should have been a patient at the Institution to which he had contributed more than any man of his generation. He took great pride In It and gave It hi beat thought and best service, and the hundreds who have found health by treatment there, owe hi in a lasting debt of gratitude and for all time aa men and women and children afflict ed are brought out from the shadow of disease and death. Into health and strength, they will owe an obligation to this good man. Through thla or ganlsatlon, the nam of Richard H. Battl will be a permanently en ahrlned in the hlelorv of Rex Hoapltal as th name of John Rex, for hi pru dence and car In husbanding the money left by John Rex and helping to expend It In th wisest way ao that It might bless th many who needed Its care, link hi nam with that of th donor. tn hi boyhood days Mr. Battle' father. Hon. William Horn Battle. Judge of the Buprem Court of North Carolina, lived In Raleigh and attend ed the school of Wr. James V. Tay lor. ller. when ht father removed to Chapel Hill, where he waa l'rofce aor of l,aw. Mr. Rattle waa educated at the t'nl varsity, received the degree law and began hi career st Wades boro II servd for a short time In the Confederate Army and shortly thereafter wa requested by Governor Vance to becom hi Prlvst Secre tary, and he held that confidential and Important position at a time f great crisis until In UK when he be came th Auditor of the .state Vila Intimate relation with Governor I Vance In th Irving daye of the war gae him a clear inalght and full knowleda of the. great problems that confronted our great War Oovernor, and. like all good private, secretaries. lasted until the death of Governor Vim. r- It may be doubted If any man In the Htate knew Vance so well or so thoroughly enjoyed his confl- tlon of the younger man for the older, based upon the Intimate relatlonahlp In tlmea that tested men. was beauti ful, and upon the death of Oovernor Vance there was no tribute paid to hla memor that waa more lllumlnat- , Rnri fn nf Illustrative Incidents than thnl of Mr. Rattle's. He deliv ered Mildresaea upon Vance at a num ber of schools snd they were so full "f human Interest snd anecdotes and incidenta that all who heard Mr. Rat i le a estimate (if the great War Uov- eritcr i iime Into s higher apprecla- t lion of the great aervlce he rendered ; the Htat.. as War Governor. When j the people determined to erect a j monument tn Capitol Square to Gov ernor ance, Mr. Rattle waa made iliHiini.in cf the Monument Commit tee iirul tih htm the work that pre ceded the unveiling of (hat statue was a labor of love ti.dng to Chapel Hill as a boy snd llylns there until he was a man. Mr. Haiti was all bis life a devoted Hlumnus and friend of (ha( Institu tion his love for It was on of ths' chief passions of his life, s conserva tive and equitable man. who mani fested hi love In quiet end steady Battle, ss. president. For many yeara he was on of th trtwrtee and nev er failed to be present on comment anient occasions Vpon the death of the late Col. William U Saunders, he aas mad secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees and served the in stitution In that capacity wi.h l.val tsal and growing Interest. As the yesrs fell upon him It seemed that hla love for his slma mater Increased nd he loved to return often to it Classic snsars ano reran in com rades of his youth. No T'niverslty msn ever mama la touph with him that did not foal that,. Ultra wm a ...y.,- ... . - . - r- a .1 p, IT ..in. , I.HITII nil If A ! Mtfl V .V. rnMt I "i .. - upon lie irauuions - in pure enu i, . . , M ,nB blameless life, th Christian faith and th nobility of living which gi rincd hi life. H loved to think of the University sending out tn the staj young msn strong tn mind and in body and In spirit, and he !t opportunity to preach to them the need Of purity of life. a well a a of th strengthening of their mental fnc ulties. and better than hi ta hlng was hi Ilf, because he Incarnated all tllS Virtues Which he Inculcated upon the young msn of the Vnlvorslty which h lovd o well In all public matter Mr Battle waa publlo spirited In the hight degree Everything that looked for the uiillft and betterment of hi city, hi Htnte or his country had hi aotlv and earnest support It was seldom that any public meeting was held In Ha lelgh for any good cause that Mr Battle wa not present to give hla wlseoounael. lie was aevotea to ma Prjeaaion waa an able and honor- hle lawyer aiandlng long as the dean of the Italelgh Far. He waa the personification of honesty snd sin cerity He never sdvlsed a client to litigate when he thought he was wrong and Illustrated in his profes sional life the highest ethics He was trusted hy many executors and guardian and held the closest confl ilcntUI relationship for a half a cen tury to hundreds of clients He was i admirably equipped for Judicial eer- Wee. Governor Scales appointed him ! Huperlor Court Judge, but he de clined the appointment, he loved hi home and was ao devoted to hi fam ily that he waa unwilling to leave his growing children to ride the circuit If he had accepted doubt that he would there I little have been ele ated to the Supreme roort ntirh. ' and have made quit as great a repu tatlon as that of his eminent father, who long graced the bench Mr Rattle took deep Intereet In politics, the Interest of a patriot, he was for a number of years Chalrmgn of the Htate Democratic Kxecuttve Committee, and. while he was the head of the party, splendid vli torteai for good government were won and won without money, without even the semblance of unfairness and upon the highest plane. He had been reared a Whig, but like most of the patrlotlr Whigs, became a Democrat at the close of the war. and while he alwaya retnlned his admiration Mr Henry Clay an I Daniel Wehetar and other great leaders of his party like Vance, he became a thorough Democrat In ths great doctrine of tariff and nppo sltlon to special prlvllegV More than once In Wake county. Mr Rattle responded to the call of his county when It was hopelessly Republican nd made the race, but his campaigns were always educa tional and uplifting and everybody In Wake county regarded Mr. Rattle as a man without reproach and a lawyer with such a lofty character that they t mated their b wain. -a to him His last publlo service was as a member of the General Assembly of 1 1 1 1 110 was a stirring year In politics In North Carolina, the most stirring In s decade, and the people of the county, looking for a representative who would hav no Interest to sub serve except th common good. In a public meeting attended by over a thousand of the best men of the county, requested Mr. Battle to tie com a candidate of the Democratic 1 primaries. He didn't deal re the post- tlon ana was absent from the city nd was absent from the .lty'm'nv 0,n" It was In this century that when th maa meeting placed hla nm before the public. Cpon his r turn h wan deluged with Utter and messages not only from Wake county but from all over the State, urging him to accept th position H did n'1 elected by the largest ma- Jorlty given In Wake county In many year and aervrd his conatltuents and hi State with singular devotion and ability The measures he sdvtx ateil were measures that meant most for North Carolina, present and future and th causes he espoused were al ways for th betterment of the people At the close of the session those who watched the session congratulate I htm upon the eminent sen-ice he had rendered to the State i Mr. Rattle waa beloved and hon, r j ed for hi Chrlatlan character From , his youth up he had kept Hll the I rommandmenta loved hlaf. lb w n n and had a catholicity w hi, h made him lov all men and seek t holy them. He waa from hla buyhnod H consistent member of the 1'plaoopiii Church, and wss one of the men who organized (he Church of th (o... Shepherd, of which he was the senli r warden snd vestryman and superin tendent of th Sunday School for over a quarter of a century. He had bcri elected euccesalvely for many years aa di'U-Bsle to the General Convrn thm of hla church. h held the hlh cat position of trust In It and guv., r, It the benefit of his wisdom. II. was never happier (hen wben In th. , atinctuary and throughout hie while 11' be was a devout and conscientious christian He loved his church and bis love f. r It was brosd enough to .take In all the churches and rnen ..f every faith and creed. He truly, throughout Mi long life, "wore the flower of a bin me leas Ilf." Only the chief facta In th Ilf of this good man ar presented In the abov. He lout hed life st every Minl and ajwsy at th olnt where he could du most for th cause of du - tlon. for lb helping of hit fellow men and for UlustrsUag In his walk and eonrsjramUoa tha virtual of a up. Importance of the clergy taking deep Interest In ths public e hoola of their community. He eald that every year j he made as many addrce at school j commencement ai he could, and 1 hoped that the clergy would do llke lae and pointed out the eaaentliil value of public education. The de votion which Blehop Ktrange haa hown In education of all the people, from the day he entered the mtnla try. has been as marked a waa that of tn lsU Gv.rnnr Aycock, who waa riaa. m,t of nlf nt rege. Blnce h. ha held the exulied position of Hlahop, his Influence for public ed- ufiitlon ha been felt not only throughout hi d!n, but In sit North Carolina. Mmh of hi address at the opening of th Council was along the educational line It Is a good thing to ace lender of ths lurches taking the Inti-ieie; In public education In North I'arnllna, that rnaracisnsee all the anion 01 ninop Htrange. He I a power for good In church and State, and l eaally one of the beet beloved of North 'arollnlana RESTJtr OF IMHMtRIKH. The net of the result of th prima ries held last Katurdav la that moat of the counties merely elected dele fates without any Inn' ructions a to I fltate officials or anv candidate for th presidency 'f the i ountles thst did act, Wilson ha for the preeldem v atrong lead Perhapa fifteen counties do not time cither townhlp primaries nr maaa meeting, and those counties will h ld mass-meeting next Saturday County conven tion will be held In all counttes-on Saturday, except Wake tn which by i fin laKiui uvij. i.i.n auiim in iiiuiivt mr mi norev. a apeclal act of the Legislature lt'h.it hold a primary .1 u i 1st Ther la now another strong argu- l"n enthusiasm that wfll spur on to ment In favor of a uniform system of 'U"T u "V V1"'. I the speaker showed this to be true, ascertaining the will of the people. . not nniy )ri ,n industrial world. In The present hybrid system Is so loossVthe realm of education, music, art and and disjointed aa to need to be dls- j oratory, but particularly In the build Placed by a uniform la Those who ln of rhr"rt"' He hor,"1 h young ladles to dream high and to oppose primaries should suggest jdreBlf, ,arK(, thing, and to see vision something better, and ahould rmm- lnd to be gripped by a great Ideal. tier Jefferson wise saying: "The remedy for the more democracy j At night the sermon before th T . W. (" A . a thriving Institution In the The "(Jod Blessed Miri" hold their kollege. wss preached by Rev T c. big re-unlon today at Red Spring ?. h chose for his text. erily I sav unto you, they Th whole State I Interested In their hay1 ,helr reward Th, Krmo'n wai meeting and the State owes a debt of very impropriate and well received. gratitude to -Wilton Mclean for thai The bur ten of his message was that grem work hs Is doing to preserv the Scottish history In North Caro lina Severifomous nou: NO. -IUU.AVIV8 VEIXiI.APfTIFF. 1'rom the ninth century the horse began figuring prominently In hla tun and the many signs of Intelll genca ne displayed havg been chron ''led In romances. In ode and In the first allusion to horse racing w understand It. and to "running I. rsea. as rce horses continued to b .ailed f..r many centurle after wxrda la to b found In history. hen Hugh, the founder of the roy al h me,, i f Capet, in France, made a piesnnt ..f running horses to King Aihelstsn In the hop that In re turn tii. K.ng might sllow him to i"l his sister. Elhelswlths. Ai thl- i . riod Hengtst snd Horsa are eud bv some historians to have disibiv.-ii iMereat In horse racing, bin u .. m oeaieut Is not baaed upon Ipniii evidence and more than Un lit.. I that because Henglet 1 1 1 ure alleged by one hls t to hav given the order f horse hould be cut linlk hills of Berkshire. " Sajron banners must is R device a white horse. - horss st Wantage other uclare to have been cut i rntlon of Alfred great r the Danes at the battle or Ashtreehlll. during ' hla brother. Ethelred I. - 374 feet, and even at a nearly fifteen mllea It Is "ii-li. In clear weather. ' ui this period that the Poland and hla equally rse. VelllantlfT, are men 'storv. Though owing to , i... -.t - !.,.!. the actual truth about traceo onry wnn mm- may take it for granted k! Roland waa th son ike of Atgland: that he of Man and Knight of .1 that hi mother was sister of rrlemsgne. the name by which he in Italian romance and Is changed to "Vegllan- Italian romancer. Ho. f liet t h ,1 th, "tiali.lo i. I ki'. i "V,.!,intlrT" tin..' bv Hi I I end his horse figured proml- ro-itlv In Theroulds'S "Chanson d Kclitpd de Tu,, In th romance -xnroniq and of cotirs in Arm- i . . e,, of Mad Roland and Rol ardo s Orlando In tiOVS." 'i"land la aeld t has been eight 'eet tail snd all dessnipllon of ilUn iff show htm to hav been aowarful proporUoaa which ...)bi b required to carry satch hrtvy burden. Rslawd heraa nug hav,. b.n an inoawiaarabl ahargwr ' m"r Intelllirsat than even his icimrr ror II IB rl" - 'vet- Ri.li.nit hard pressed Veil lni,ff ,-r.buta knowledge of tha fac t i,n some mysterious JT d at oot arried Itotand out of dngr as far utdlririrM,' ' .--'.. .-.- Veillantlff. aside from his mssstv 5E5 large atima of money 4or the horee In fact declined to consider any offer Tomorrow iutuu-d II e Roan Barbery. AT THE L FEMALEGOLLEGE Commencement Exercises Be- gin and Are Proving Full of Interest Being Largely At tended (Special to New and Ohservsr.) Loulahurg. May 20 The event of absorbing Intere.t her this week 1 j the commencement of the Louibiirg Kernels College. In the long history of this splendid Institution, beginning In 1S02. no year ha been marked with more signal ucce than the present one. I rider the wise management of Mr a lvey Allen, th president, th inautution nas made good progress 'along all llnea Th attendance thl year has been unusually good, and tn personnel of the etudeut bodj; has been far above the average. A large number of counties and severaj States are represented on the roll of stu dents. The largest class will gradu al Wednesday in the history of the college. The baccalaureate sermon was preached Sunday morning In the Methodist church by Rev. J. M, Or mond. of Ilillsboro, In the presence of a vast audlsnc. Ills them was "The Power of a Great Single Pur pose ' II emphasised the great Im portance of concentrating all ths force of one being on one thing. (hereby gaining greater efficiency and tlon of one s energies and receiving land to follow a fined purpos in life. The sermon abounded tn good thioiwhta f . . r V. I v. - - J we nnd precieely wnat we are looking for in Ilf and what we want most, snd that we be com like those things that we love best. A sailor went around the world, and the chief thing he could tell on hi return, was the price of rum in the different porta Another msn did not go half as far. but he saw cathedra' and art gal leries, and ruined civilisations , and wh Inspired to noble endeavors The cartoonist see only th ridicu lous In everything, however beautiful or sue red Raphael said that In all hla lournevs he did not look Into a woman face. however degraded, that he did not lee something f the beautv snd the holiness of the Vir gin s fnre We see what we want to and we at wrvflt we supremely want, thoush II may prove nur undoing If we hunt for God w can see Him. for "Th whole earth Is crammed with heAven. And every common bueh ts aflame with iod: Hut only he who aeea takes off his Shoes ' The first exercise of commencement wa a graduating recltsl by Miss Cora Perebee of Camden county. Saturday night He rendition of th many ex - client numbers of the program showed the moat painstaking care on the part of her teacher, and a great' perseverance and Industry n her part. This program of classical mi ale was given without a not before her. the lonaest number reoulrlna au0llt twenty minutes Her execution was brilliant and she obtained great applause from the sudienc. Many of her relative were her to honor the occasion She wa beautifully assist ed by Miss ( rrmerod, the teacher of voice, who lent her rich contralto to the occasion SWAT THE FIXES. Whether you rs blank or rhit. Swat th fit: whether you are stout or alight. Swat the files Whether you are young or old. Whether you are hot or cold, F.ven if you're ehy or bold Swat tha files. Swat the fllea whsre'er you go. Swat 'em high snd swst 'm low. Give each on a stinging bloW Twlxt th eyes, " Don t let on escap your aim. Get right In th swatung gB Bwat. oh. swat. In hear1 nams. Bwat tha fllea Whthr you ar short or tan. Swat tha files; Whether you are big or email. Swat th I lla Whether you'r abroad, at home, n- th. feathYT crested foam, 1 intwhCI TOO rnsncv iw iw.o, Bwat th file i Swat th fly with all ypor might i e..v - ( . Swat him day and swst Mm night Tn K it lea Kill blm when hs's on the run. , Shoot him With your deadly gun. W hen you'r killed him. ev ry one, Th.rVH b file i Can. I" Nw York Run. SOCIETY Mis Margstet . t mftsld, of Mteses Luclll stateavlll. la nsiiing i,lhn .nd Gladys Yates In West Rsi- . h Oil Podrida Club. Ther Will ha meetlns of th OH Podrida Club with Mrs, Henry Briggs Tuesday afternoon at f t: I ok- .i. . lulislfT rwtigrew CltapSiar. ' Th Jobnaton ptur Chapter meet Th afternoon at four 4'r-lnrk wtt r How. In tha Lea nets, Ms I sTsnn. .... ;.-- a j " InhsMKNi IVtilgrew Cfyapter. " .. Th Johnson. Petti rrvw Chapter PaugMerS f th' CesfeJrs)rT. will meet Wednesday afternoon at fow OUISBURG other dny whom he favored. Taft or Hooeelt. Without halting hi pac he roared out. "I'd sooner be pestered wlrh a boll thsn afflicted with a cancer.'' From that It wa tntrveloua shrewdly opined that tiu ! veteran old standpatter ts for Taft, i though he could nam a candidal he would prefer to him What a grand get of party chief tain they were who led the O.I). 1". Irl the daya of Ita grandeur! They were wrong. denperalely wrong, mlaeralily wrong; hut they were brave They never hesitated, and In their creed failure wa the chlefeat. If not th sole crime. Only a few are left Hoar. Piatt and Fryj, of the New Kngland Senatorial iiiad are dead Aldrlch and Hale are re- !47w KnXyd lXZ TnTl" remalna, and the party will no longer dunce to hla piping Reed, the greatet Republican, aave Lincoln alone, aaw the cataclysm when It was yet afar off. when It cloud waa no bigger than a man hinil Ha kinjkn- Ih.l If would he re- gtle. and he. the hraveet aa well the greatest Republican of hla day. retired from the conflict A man of a little Imagination might muse about the thing and fancy th untold bene flcnt result had the Democratic party discovered the magnanlmlly and the sagacity to nominate Tom Reed for President In 1 900 and had Tom Heed been bleased with the robust physical vitality that had been his th day he was chosen Speaker In 18. When Roosevelt was rVesident the Old Guard In the House of Represen tative was officered by Dalzell, Can non. Grosvenor, Hepburn. Hltt, Utile field. MoCsll and Tawney Burrows and Dolllver had been "promoted" to the Senate, but the leaders 1 have named a remaining In the House knew how to do thing, and what wa much to the point, they knew how not to do thing AH of them r gone except Cannon, Daliell and McCall, and Dalsell, on of the most capable and gifted legislators of his time, has been slaughtered In the household of his friend By a very narrow mar gin Boa Fllnn haa succeeded In de feating for re-election to Congress the gr ntest Pennsylvsnlsn now living. . And that is a feat that Matthew B ytiay repeatedly attempted and al ways failed Daliell was never a member of the machine and nsver a favorite of It. Had he been content to be a henchnian of a bo he wuold hav been a Senator long ago He entered the House of Representative In 1HI7. His flrt legislative experl- ;c wa th.j steslon when the V, 11 tariff bill wa passed by (he House, of which Carlisle waa Speaker. And men and brethren you Democrats, I'm talking to do you know that a c)awles cat would easier emerge from Tophet thsn that same Iemocratlc Mills tariff of mil would gel out ef the Ways and Means Committee of the present Democratic House, of vhlch Clerk is IpeakerT Fact IkilcvJ Ism haa supplanted Mlllslsm In Iem ocratlc. councils so far aa the present Democratic Congre ts concerned. And maybe that Is how It came that Texas went "hellbent" for Mlllslsm and against Balleylsm In the Demo cratic primaries May 4 of thl good year Hut to get back tn Dalxell. All of us who oppoae him as well as all who agree with him mug admire the man for hi splendid Intellect, for hi ad mirable poise, for his lofty character He comes from Pittsburg and I a tariff robber all right, but he believes New : News : of : Yesterday The Three Words That Secured a Presidential Nomination. (By K. i. At the Democratic National Con vention of 1S80 one of the leading candldatea for the presidential nomi nation was Henry B. Payne, of Cleve land, Ohio, the father-in-law of the late William C. Whitney, of New York. Mr. Payne represented Ohio In the United States Senate at one time. He wss a man of great wealth and of even greater Influence politically and commercially. The delegate to the convention bad been Informed that they must not nominate Samuel J. Tllden. who was lh candidate for President of the, Democracy fopr yesrs earlier Governor Tllden was known to be In feeble health, end It was for this rea son that he had written a letter In which he stated that he must rot be nominated by the convention for he muld not sccept. Leading Democratic politician nomination. There are many doubt -from other part of the country than !'! nr wavering Qelegatea You can New York or Ohio searched among capture them " Democratic leader In other State for ' Thereupon. Mr. Dougherty conient a roan who had presidential qualities. d to mske the nomination speech, a record, availability, high character H had In mind (he wonderful out and a firm belief in Democratic prln- burst of oratory with which Robert G. clples. They found that man. as they lngroll had proclaimed Blaine a bellevW. In General Wlnfield Scott "the plumed knight" at fhe Republl- I Hancock. They determined to match j can convention foar year earlier, the verv expert political strategy of Mr. Dougherty studied Colonel Inger- I which Wllllsm ('. Whitney waa the soil speech and became familiar with master by political tactics of another I all of Wis accessories of that occa- i kind. It was their hope to be able Islon. H spent mailt weary hours ,to stampede the convention, Ss It was .striving to coin Into a single phras called, chlfly through the enthusiasm Uh heroic attributes of General Han and excitement which a magnificent cock. At last, when almost In despair, burst of oratory might be able to the expression cam to him. when. In ana. reading over Tlancock's war record. But who wa tha man who could j he learned that McOlellan. In th make a speech upon the floor of the Peninsular campaign, had said of convention which, the laying la Hancock at he battle of Wllllams- would carry th delegate off their feet? Flnallv. Bomeons suggested Daniel IVvughertv eometlmea called "the ll-ver-tongued orator of Philadelphia." "But Doughtery I a Republican,'' It waa nhlected. "No. he Is not anv longer a Re Hubllcen." wa the reply. "H want out of the Republican party sight years ago He mad great speeches In support of th candldecy of Oov ernor Tllden for the presidency ". That point settled. Mr. Dougherty was approached and asked lf he would b willing to nominate General Hancock. . "What State Is General Hancock from"' Mr. Dougherty queatlogad. "Iin t It the custom. for a presidential candidate to be nnnsjnated by a clrlxen of his own State?" o'clock, with Mrs. A. J. Bills. In West Kalelgh. ' , ' AT 6AI.F.M COIXrOtt ' , f (onimerswtU Thtasa of Two Ral eigh. Girl Messber of th prM atlag TTam. Wlnston-BaJem, K. May ' Th an hundred and tenth' annual eommacmnt at Salsa. Coll will heel. Alexander had a bad ahoulder, Hannllml was a one-eyed roan, Caesar had lUe. and Napoleon Bonaparte got eciema nt Toulon, and It was yet wllh him at Waterloo. Bun uwi was considerable of an orator. He was a tail, portly man, physically handsome, but there was too much of the animal In his per sonal appearance. He was not a fine grained. himtsome man, like John C. Breckinridge or Roscoe Conkllng, but coarse ills voice was resonant, his pole grandiose, his attitudes and language provocative. It was Im possible for Burrows to make a speech without arousing the fiercest anger of anyone who disagreed with him and 'ie h.'.u but two spiii;i Southern treason and the tariff. Ha abandoned the former, not because he considered It had philosophy, but be cause he saw It was bad politics. When he made a tariff speech his argument was that only bad men cuLld oppo.c (re dogma of pr:dr. tlon. Hla strong point was lumber, and the last double decade of hi career his sole mission In the publlo councils was to advocate a high tariff on lumber Rut Daliell Is a very different order of man. His knowledge of publlo iiuestlona Is wide and thorough Hs Is a scholar nnd tudent. He I a fine lawyer He I widely read In general literature, eepectally history. II Is the on public msn with whom I have had any converse at this capi tal who was familiar with the debates of the Parliaments of George II, though I doubt not Cabot Lodge knows all about them. When Dal iell makes a speech he reasons He never strives to convince the adver- sary That la a Job for your Bacon I or Rurke. whose tribe Is extinct. He seeks to confound the other side. It I true, hut above all he attempt to rally his own side, and he never fail ed until the Insurgents esme on deck. Joseph O Cannon remalna snd doubtless he will be leader, for M soon aa Roosevelt Is the nominee. If he does get It, you will sea him hold ing .nit the live branch to the stand patters Teddy la the best, the slilfrlest. ihn lust practical politic n of them all. he knows how to us men, and he will get the standpatters If he has tt promls the Speakership t. l nele I ie 1-i.aln. the bonihlo t Penrose. and the senstorshlp ta ( rane nnd to Bradley. If Taft Is the nominee Cannon l( certain to be returned to Congress for th twentieth term, and he will be the regular Republican nominee for Speaker. If Roosevelt Is President he will force Cannon on the Inur genta, and If Taft Is elected Cannon will bs the regular party nomine for his old Job. If both Taft and Roose velt run, each claiming to be the reg ular nominee. It will throw politic Into chaos and there will be a bushel of that chaos on th Democratic aids of the hedge also Wrong as he has always bntf I'ncle Cannon la yt a fine old man. There Is thla to b said of and for him. As a member of the Committee on Approprtstlons his vole, vot and influence have always been for strict honesty in expenditures, economy without penurlousness and liberality Vithoul lavlshnes An unnecessary or a corrupt appropriation never found a more relentless or a fiercer enemy than old Joe Cannon The misery of It Is that his general politic I so rotten that It ts a pity h n er got to Congress at all. Washington, May IS. EDWARDS.) This nueadon puxzled the men who had waited upon Mr. Iwvugherty. It save them a new thought lu all the discussion about General Hancock no body had thought to put the querv, "What Stat does he hall from 7" it was known that he had not cast a vote for manv years. It waa very doubtful wtether ha could claim residence In any particular State. But It was recalled that he was born In Pennsylvania and had been a citizen of thRt State when he entered the army, and that fact was regarded as sufficient to establish a residence. So the friends of General Hancock again went to Daniel Dougherty and aid to him : "General Hancock I a Pennsyl vania! and so are you. You ar ths ! man who can so speak of Hancock j upon the floor of the convention as to ln ufflclent unport to secure hi : Durgh. "Hancock was superb.' A few hours later. Dougherty, In a fin fervor of Intense feeling, pro claimed the candidate whom hs WSS nominating as "Hancock the Superb." And as Dougherty uttered th word "superb" every delegate present hsd vividly pictured forth to his Imagina tion ths qualities of Hancock as thesn hsd been displayed upon many a field of battle. "Hancock the Huparb" waa the cry Instantly taken up by th convention, and It waa tor "Hancock the Superb" thst the delegates at th first opportunity delivered the two thirds vote necessary for tha nomina tion. .Copyright. 11J. by E. 3. Sdwarda All rights reserved.) i Tomorrow Mr. Edwards wfll tH of "A Mystery of th Senate." tak plac on May 'Mth ta fSth. Ml Uretchen Clement end Julia West of RsKlsk are members of th graduating clsss aad wlU present as their eommencemsnt theses. "Bdgar Allan W aad "Btirwtwiea the Uld South." respectively. g ' ' ; . ; ; , Woman's natural mission Is to lrrr ta lova hut on ta lov always Jdlchslst. . k' "
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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