;'-J; ! :-:i S3 'i'i ;j -a r.s III 4 U- 'ill . - If'. itf '8 tt,s,i a 3 i ' :5 i r : K ill! I 15:1 -4. 1 I fill!! 1 ,51 5,H I- : 1 pi ; -'l-S' a j- ii "if J' III ; if- mi b'.i 5:' Ir' i .M f'S . 5 "!!: - THUKSDAY, June 30, 1904. H. A. LONDON. Editor. The Democratic State conven tion, held at Greensboro last week, nominated the following candidates: Governor, Robert B. Glenn. Lieutenant-Governor, Francis D. Winst6n. Associate Justices of the Su preme Court, W. A. Hoke and George H. Brown, Jr. Presidential electors, F. S. Spruill, of Franklin, and W. A. I Self, of Catawba. The following old officers were renominated, most of them by ac clamation; State Auditor, B. F. Dixon. Treasurer, B. R. Lacy. Secretary of State, J. Bryan Grimes. Superintendent of Public In struction, J. Y. Joyner. Commissioner of Labor and' Printing, H. B. Varner. Corporation Commissioner, S. L. Rogers. Commissioner of Agriculture, S. L. Patterson. The following were elected del-egates-at-large to the national convention: Julian S. Carr, of Durham; Locke Craig, of Ashe ville;JohuE. Woodard, of Wil son; E. J. Hale, of Fayetteville. This was the largest and most enthusiastic convention ever held in this State. Nothing compara ble to it has ever been known in North Carolina. While it was boisterous (almost as much so as Roosevelt's convention at Chica go) yet it was good humored and no bitterness was shown. Every county was represented by large delegations. No sane man seeing that convention could doubt the election of its nominees by over whelming majorities. The convention was held in a large brick tobacco warehouse, which had been as comfortably fitted up for the occasion as mon ey and thoughtfulness could make it. Over 5,000 persons were seated in it, and the public spirited citi zens of Greensboro contributed to their comfort in every way possi ble. Indeed Greensboro "did her self proud" on this grand occa sion, and no other city in the State could have entertained such a convention so comfortably. The chief interest centred in the nomination of governor, and eve rything else was made subordi nate to that. Balloting began about 9 o'clock and after five bal lots Glenn was nominated about sunriso, an all night's work. The vote on the first ballot (leaving jout fractions) was as follows: Glenn 552, Stedman 419, Turner 119 and Davidson 158. The last ballot resulted as follows; Glenn 654, Stedman 417, Turner 68 and Davidson H0. It will thus be seen that the Stedman ranks re mained unbroken to the last and his friends stood by him to the last, just as many of them had stood by the "Lost Cause" until the surrender at Appomattox. Those who thought that Gover nor Aycock had lost his popular ity would have discovered their mistake if they had seen the close attention with which the conven tion heard his great speech, after having howled down every pre ceding speaker. This speech should be read by every taxpayer in the otate, for it is a complete refuta tion of the Republican allegation of extravagance and is an unan swerable vindication of his admin istration. His contrast of the first three years of his administration with the first three years of Rus sell's should be most pleasing and gratifying to every man who de sires good government. " The nominating speeches were very good, especially those of Victor S. Bryant in nominating Stedman and W. A. Self in nomi nating Turner. These speeches were heard with due respect and close attention, but the seconding speeches were not heard after the convention had very properly re buked Cansler, of Charlotte, who persisted in making a most impo litic speech in defiance of the con vention's protest. The platform was adopted by a unanimous vote and is one on which every good citizen can oimwu. u. ucic was no neea 01 a minority report, as there was in the convention two years ago, for this platform did not endorse the "Kansas City" platform as was done two years ago. The action of the convention last week was vindication of the minority report made by this writer at the preced ing State convention, which is auite sratifyincr. The platform endorsed Gov. Ay-1 cock's administration and com mended his educational policy. The general principles of the Watts liquor law were approved and confidence expressed in the next Legislature to correct any provision proving by experience to need amendment. The South Dakota bond suit, against the State was condemned; and the tjuroose of the State to resist ev- I ery effort to reopen the matter of old bonds, heretofore settled, strongly expressed. An amend xnent to the platform, offered by Dr. Faison, of Duplin, pledging the party to adopt a constitution al amendment restricting funds for educating negroes to taxes paid by them was overwhelmingly defeated. This convention was a remarka bly sober body of men, and all to gether it was a most notable as-! sembly, the like of which has nev-. er before been seen in this State. ! While there were present many of the old men who had attended all j the conventions since the war, there were also hundreds of the young set who were attending ' their first convention. The wis dom of age and the vigor of youth : were well represented. It was al-. . t n ' so a narmonious reunion 01 an sorts of Democrats gold stan dard Democrats, free silver Dem ocrats, Palmer and Buckner Dem ocrats, Populistic Democrats, and McKinley Democrats all happi ly reconciled and reunited, for getting and forgiving their past differences. Roosevelt's convention (for that is what the Republican na tional convention may properly be called) was held last week at Chi cago, and of course nominated him for President and Senator Fair banks, of Indiana, for Vice-President. Two incidents occurred that are very significant. One was the ap pearance of a negro boy on the stage waving a Hag, which was greeted with wild enthusiasm. The other was the seconding of Roosevelt's nomination by a negro delegate. The only wonder is that Roosevelt did not have his friend Booker JT. Washington to put him in nomination! In the platform adopted is a plank demanding that the South allow the negroes to vote, and if we do not tnen to reduce our repre sentation in Congress and the electoral college. The Southern white man who favors this is un worthy of the respect of decent men! Of course Judge Robinson was not re-elected a member of the Republican national executive committee. Nobody expected him to be after he refused to eat with a negro at Mark Hanna's banquet last winter. It was predicted then that such an insult to the colored brother would be punished, and that prediction was fulfilled last week. And yet some Republican speakers and papers pretend that they do not favor social equality! The truth is, Roosevelt and the Republican leaders are determined to "turn down" any man who re- luses to eat witn a negro! ! At last the public printer has enabled the Secretary of State to distribute the Public Documents furnished the , legislature at its last session. These documents make two huge volumes, and if printed soon after the legislature adjourned misrht have been of some value. It is utterly inexcu sable to delay over fifteen months before printing them. Whiskey's Fatal Work. Special to The Morning Post, Weldon, N. C, June 23. Mr. V. R. Valentine, who lived at Val- tare in Northampton county while crazed from the effects of liquor last night shot his wife in the head with a double barrelled shot gun, tearing away the back of her head and inflicting what is con sidered a fatal wound. He then turned the gun upon ; himself and emptied the other barrel into his own person and died soon after. No other cause than drink can be given for the rash act. Mr. Val en tine was at one time a conduc tor on the Raleigh & Gaston Rail road. The tragedy caused great sorrow in the community. For sick headache take Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets and a quick cure is certain For sale by G. R. Pilkington. Washington Letter. Prom our Reealar Correspondent. j Washington, June 23, 1904. The summer solstice finds more political activity at the nation's capitol than exists in the average years. Even the Chicago conven tion has not wholly succeeded in transferring partisan discussion. The pronounced opposition of great groups of business Repub licans in New York and Philadel phia to another presidential term is reflected in our Board of Trade. Men who supported Roosevelt for Vice-President and have watched the evolution of his brazen audac ities say to one another "What of the future? What is Roosevelt likely to do if he gets a free tether four years long?" They feel sure that he has courage and personal ' honesty, but they think him capa ble of monumental indiscretions. The disrepute into which the Vice-Presideucy seems to have fallen is a current surprise. Al ways till now it has been regarded as a very lofty and honorable of fice, worthy of any man's ambition. Of those who have been elected Vice-President of the United States, one-third have been pro moted to the Presidency, either by death or popular choice. J ohn Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren were thus transferred by the people's vote. Roosevelt's contemptuous kick four years ago and Cannon's cur rent sneers have treated the office as if it were a degradation; but the Vice-President is the President's deputy and the director of the Senate's business at all times, and has a salary of $8,000 a year, a considerably larger than either Roosevelt or Cannon ever had in their lives until the former's elec tion in 1900. General Palmer, Public Printer, has this week perpetrated a gross outrage against the people of the. United States, by printing under date of June 20, an edition of the Congressional Record containing sixty pages of Republican cam- i paign literature. This publication two months after the adjournment : of Congress is a wanton violation j of the law. Towards the end of the ; session concurrent protests were ' made against giving leave to print in the Record speeches not deliv ered on the floor, and both parties agreed to put a summary end to it and to grant no more permis- j sion to "extend remarks in the Record." It now seems that the bargain was made by the Repub licans in a Pickwickian sense on ly but was held to be binding on the Deomcrats. Is it thought that ! no treachery can be so dastardly as not to be justified if thereby Mr. Roosevelt is elected? Are Messrs. Payne, Dalzell, Grosve nor, and Hemenway parties; to this iniquity, or does Mr. Palmer hope to read in it his Mtle clear for another four years? Explana tions are in order. Such a publi cation is a gross fraud upon the people because it entitles this six ty pages of Republican literature to be sent free under frank to all parts of the United States. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has left his office to take care of itself while he does missionary work in the West. He may not make many Republican votes, however, if the speech is a fair sample which he made to an im mense crowd in Chicago Audito rium Tuesday evening. " He in dulged in the usual apostheosis of high tariff and represented that one of its glories was that it en abled American manufacturers to sell their products in Europe at a price lower than they could af ford to sell them for to our own people! He did not hesitate to specifically state that "Four mil lion dollars worth of merchandise, the product of American factories, is annually sold abroad cheaper than in the home market." It is not reported that Secretary Shaw blushed when he made this an nouncement, or that he even stam mered. On the contrary he waved his arms proudly and blurted it out as if he thought it something to be proud of and something which the American consumers would be glad to hear.- He said if a remedy was demanded it should be found not in the reduc tion of the tariff, but in the repeal of the patent laws. The invitation to Paul Morton to become Secretary of the Navy is the sensation of the week. He has been a Democrat all his life till within the last three or four months, being a son of that Ster ling Morton who was Gleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. For the Piesident of the United States to turn suddenly around at a dinner table and offer Paul a Cabinet portfolio without consulting any body with as much insouciance as if he were merely passing the salt, is certainly a dramatic or comic performance. The plea of delegate Reyburn in the Chicago convention for a restoration of self-government to this city has been refused, and we shall still struggle along under our triumvirate. .It may be wiser to bear the oppressions which we suffer than fly to other kinds of tyranny which we know not of but concerning which we can fling a pretty accurate guess. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that a Russian ferry boat while crossing Khoper river (a tributary of the Dan) sank with all on board. Sixtv bodies Wa been recovered and 160 persons are missing. Glenn's Reception at Winston. Winston-Salem, June 24. The people of Winston-Salem gave Capt Robert B. Glenn tonight the greatest reception ever given to any citizen by the people of a city. It was a great outpouring, strong ly emphasizing their love and re gard for him. It was announced that the train on which he would arrive would reach here at 8:20 o'clock tonight. An hour before that time great throngs lined the streets to the depot and when the train arrived fully 6,000 people were gathered thereabouts. When the station blow was heard it was the signal for the pandemonium to break loose. Fire bells, triangles, all the factory whistles, the whist les of locomotives on the yards, whistles of fire engines, cow bells in the hands of scores of boys, drums, cannon-crackers, torpe does, church bells, court house and city hall bells and every con ceivable noise-maker were brought into requisition. When he alight ed from the train he was escorted by Mayor O. B. Eaton and Chief of Police Crutchfield between two long, lines of ladies to an open carriage, awaiting, and the line of march was taken up to the court house square, which -had been magnificently illuminated with calcium lights, while bonfires blazed on the. .way. As he ap proached the court house, to add to the terrible, but inspiring din, the Forsyth Riflemen, of which Capt. Glenn was once captain, sa luted him with three rounds. The great throng soon gathered, but on account of the completely worn out condition of the next Gover nor he at once showed his desire not to go into the hot court house to speak, preferring to make a few re marks from his carriage. He was presented to the audience by Mayor Eaton in a most impres sive and attractive manner as the next Governor of North Carolina, and when he rose to speak a great shout rent the air. He spoke very feelingly, his voice quivered with emotion as he recited the love he bore for the good people of this city who had always been so good and kind to him. He touchingly referred to the great responsibil ities placed upon him, and con. eluded with words of praise and thanks to his thousands of friends throughout North Carolina for their work in his behalf. Espe cially did he praise the work of Mr. A. H. Eller, his excellent man ager, who has for the past fifty days given hisautire time to the work of organizing the great vote of the different countries of the State. He expressed himself as owing to him a debt of gratitude he could never- pay. After the speaking he drove out to his wife, whom hejiad not seen since the nomination. FayetteYiile Man-a Suicide. Special to Charlotte Observer. New York, June 27. George Overbaugh, 00 years old, a retired stock-broker, of Fayetteville, N. C, committed suicide today by drinking carbolic acid. He was found dead in bed in his room on the second floor at 1038 West Forty-eighth street, by his sister, Mrs. William Jessup. Mr. Over baugh came here several weeks ago to be treated for insomnia. He consulted many specialists, but got no relief. Despondency over his failure to obtain a cure caused him to end his life. Mrs. Jessup is a member of the Chris tian Scientist church and often importuned him to try the faith cure. Her brother pooh-phooed this, saying that there was "noth ing in it." Last night Mr. Over baugh was sitting on the stoop with his nephew discussing Chris tian Science and suicide. He re marked that only a fool would kill himself with carbolic acid. He seemed more cheerful than usual and remained up till late. That the acid was taken while sitting there is evident, for there is a large stain on the stone step. Mr. Overbaugh was prominent in bus iness in Fayetteville,' and was worth $100,000. ' Terrible Pailroad Wreck in Spain. Madrid, June 24. One of the most shocking ' railway accidents that has occurred in Europe for several;years liappened last night near Calamocha, in the province Teruel. The death roll is proba bly not less than one hundred. A train crossing the iron bridge ov er the river Icleca, left the rails, and the wreckage immediately caught on fire. Several of the burning cars were precipitated into the river, which was swollen hir a -ree(nt stnrm Jinn tlnwinw with a powerful current. No doubt all the passengers who fell with the carriages were drowned. A strong wind helped to fan the flames among the wreckage, which still lemained on the bridge. Some of the carriages caught on pro jections of the structure and hung suspended in mid air, all burning furiously. Sued By His Doctor. "A doctor here has sued me for $12.50, which I claimed was ex cessive for a case of cholera mor bus," says R. White, of Coachella, Cal. "At the trial he praised his medical skill and medicine. I ask ed him if it was not Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy he used and he' would not say that it was not." No doctor could use a better rem edy than this in a case of cholera morbus, it never fails. Sold by G. R, Pilkington. Killed Herself and Children. Chicago, June 26. Threatened with starvation and with her hus band hopelessly insane in the asy lum at Kankakee, Mrs. Anna Keldszick gave up the struggle for existence, killed her . three small children and then ended her own life. Illuminating gas was the means of destruction adopted, and when the bodies were found today all four had been dead for several hours. That the woman made every preparation to do away with her self and children was evident. She first wrote and sealed a letter ad dressed to relatives in Germany. Then she bathed herRelf and donned clean linen. Each child had also been : given a bath and clean night gowns upon the little ones before they were sent to the sleep from which they would never awaken. Choked By a Fish. Special to Charlotte Observer. Roanoke, Va., June 6. A most unusual death is reported from Appalachia, a mining town in Wise county, this State. Mrs. Thomas S. Yates was rubbing the mouth of her little three-year-old girl, Lillie, with a live gold fish in an effort to cure the child from slobbering, having been told that such a remedy would break her of the habit, when the fish slipped down the child's throat, head first, choking her to death before the fish could be gotten out. A phy sician was near at the time and promptly attended the child, but before the fish could be removed she was dead. Pleasure Party Drowned. New York, J uue 2G. Five per sons were drowned in the bay off Forty seventh street, Brooklyn, by the overturning of the 38-foot yacht Elsie and Katie, iu a heavy storm that swept over New York this afternoon. Eight other per sons, who were on the yacht at the time were rescued by members of the Second Naval Battalion, who put out in whale boats from their armory. . Thrown From a Wagon. Mr. George K. Babcock was thrown from his wagon and se verely bruised. He applied Cham berlain's Pain Balm freely and says it is the best liniment he ever used. Mr. Babcock is a well known citizen of North Plain, Conn. Ther6 is nothing equal to Pain Balm for sprains and bruis es. It will effect a cure in one third the time required by any other treatment. For sale by G. R. Pilkington. Dragged to Death By Mule. Special to News and Observer. Salisbury, N. C, June 25. Lee Fiberson, aged twelve years, was instantly killed four miles from Salisbury last night. 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