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s-sJYt v IT. . C SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $8.00 A YEAR. CHARLOTTE, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORN.LNG, FEIJHUATJY 5, 1908. - PRICE FIVE CENTS THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE MR, WILJJAMS didxt use it. ReprearoradTe Williams Takes Prcs- tdent'a Recent Message, as Mr Text In Discussion in House Did Not t ; Meet Ylth Approval -of Entire i leoDle Thlnirs In It Sensational, A ; 'rorllMio aul Dangerous to the V i '? Amcrl(n Rcrm bile," Not Deserr jv lug of aa All -Hound Eulogy Upon ' i the Part of Any Mm Who Loves Democratic Institutions, Bnt There Are Many Good. Things In It Looks like a "Bryan Message." Washington, Feb. A Taking for Mil text' the President'! recent mes- sage, which was so thoroughly diseuea--. f tt yesterday. Representative John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, at the which Senator. Bailey offered as - a substitute for the aldrlch bill In tho committee on finance before the lateyJ measure was reported to the Senate: The main section of tho ' measure is as follows: . "That whenever, in his. Judgment, business conditions may 'require It. the Secretary, of the Treasury shall deposit in banks which have already been, or which, may be for that pur pose, designated as depositaries or public money, $500,000,000 or so much thereof as he may deem neces sary or. proper, . The deposits herein authorized shall be secured as pro vided in section two of this act and shall be apportioned 'among the sev eral States in accordance with their BRYAN ON GAMBLING EVIL I ADDHKS BEFORE CIVIC FORUM. Tlie Nchraskan Speaks In Xow York and Declares that Gambling on . Mock and I 'arm Proriar: Noth ing loro Tluin Larceny Mill whim "Thou shalt not stcul' applies as much to tne monopolist as to tha highway man. Ya cha'l not make any mate rial progress in the protection of the people from private monopolies, nn til we are prepared to obliterate the lino that society has drawn between the ordinary thief and the larger nd of People VlT,ert WT?vT. rrlm,nal h h""1 P ncM " t omHm. Lx.w, ' J? ,TVZ Pondera the public through the in i ommtuanimt, "Thou Mm It Not .,.,,,-,,,,, , ., Weal,- Ute Sublect of His Talk rim,nta'"y of prhate monopoly. Thin Applies lOoimllv l the Momm nnt as to the Highwayman Upon Former Should Be Visited' Same. Punisdimeiit That la Meted Out ro the Itobber The l.miMann IxHtery a Tamet Thl to the -New York Stock - Excltange, He Dwlaren. . x.Nvw York, Feb. 4. Unjust taxation, the manner In which some private mo- population .as ascertained by the pre ceding census of the United States; onenln of the House session to-day if nd th deposits for each State shall nopolles are conducted and gambling raid he disagreed with Mr. Hepburn's: .aae f-mong tne several ceposi- tn stocks and : farm . products were slble in proportion to their caplUl flrt? nln'?,, mor" th?n and surplus. The term "busmen ?frm. .f .ircen.y -bjr W.mlam J- JJrran ... .... t . . no uciurn me :ivic roruoi to-night. The stock and produce markets ceme in for most bitter de nunciation. He said the New York stock exchange has graduated more PmlHntClpmfhun Vo.ln'a o..Y.nnt ,11,4 SiKt'lJ0 2m fPledttl8nraCnn.vhVn thlev'8' that measured by The numbrr exist In all of the States or only In .,,tAoa r..i . , . f thi rr.: -h-Vi ,i i pleaBure re,,ort compared with the of the Treasury shall not deposit In , Ncw york in!iututlon and that the the depositaries of any State a greater ; who once had charge of the Lou - State would be entitled to receive If harm that the grain gamblers and the a , , 1 u .. . stoclt gamblers of New York do ev Ignited States required, the deposit of ery day. mo iouti uurn 01 nro ,nunarea mil lion dollars." Then, as in the Aldrlch bill, follow statement of yesterday that the jnes sago met with the approval or the en tire American people. Indeed, ha said, there are thing in - It -sensational, federallstio and dangerous to the American republic." . Mr. Hepburn, he , declared, had threatened the "big four" of the House the Speaker and Mers. Payne, Dal r.ll and Sherman when he asserted that the House would pass the- rem edial legislation the President had recommended. He hoped to see the standard of rebellion raised .by Mr, Hepburn and he said he hoped to see some of the thlngrs spoken of In the message enacted into law. He was not a hero worshiper, and therefore he would consider the message "with out any regard to the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt," from whom tha message omanated. "I shall consider n. . ne said, amid loud Democratic applause, "Just as if it had been a message manatlni In the past from Grover Cleveland or William McKinley or a mesaira which more nearly resembles I Jn Its substance one to emanate , in .w.A .,tr. frnm tv Hon,' William J. Mr. -Williams declared that he was not one of those" who were arram 01 ft radical in the .White. House. He discussed briefly 'the history of rail- - road rate legislation and Insisted that it .was of Democratic origin. MANY GOOD THINGS IN IT. Mr. Williams said the message was not deserving of an all-around eulogy upon the part of any man who loved Democratic Institutions. There were, however, many good things In It. He ' did not think, he aaid, that the Dem ocrats would endorse that part of the message which recommended restor ing to the railroads the power to pool, or which advocated Federal licensing of corporations, or which declared It useless to attempt to punish "the men, the flesh, theteinRs" who Violate the law in the name of corporate author ity. As to the corporations, Mr. Wil liams declared they would never, be properly punished- "until you visit punishment upon the flesh and blood from whose brain and by 'whose acts the violations take olsce." He referred to Iaul Morton, former Secretary of the Navy, and asked: Did he get out of the Cabinet to go to a prison alter a confession of , a Jong-continued violation of these very 'Jaws?" . " - "No," he said, but Instead he Jump ed Into a lucrative position in private life, "with a letter of commendation . from the president of the united States," - , Mr. i Williams Insisted that a cor poratlon as such- could not commit a crime and therefore he advocated pun ishing tho responsible heads of the corporations. "Punish .one," he said, , "and you, will not have to punish any Mr. Williams referred to the Aid rich bill as the "railroad bond credit ttrengthenlng bill-" , ' ' OMISSION'S SIGNIFICANT. ' Again revertlnsr to the message Mr. Williams received some applause ' from the Democrats when he said Its omissions were more significant than . it commissions.- "He . has talked," Mr. Williams said, "about preJatory wealth and power of the criminals and how Important It Is to shackle them and yet," he said, with the ex ception of a little Insignificant utter- ance about putting: works of art, wood ' pulp and paper on ihe free list, "he has never raised his voice against the very poison that lies at the heart of your (Republican) entire system. The President, he continued, . had spoken of rotten business methods "but now," he said, "he comes for ward and reads u a lesson. Not on ly does he leave out the 'central, cor rupt anj corrupting evil and states the socialistic influence of It all, but he forgets to tell us why with regard to the things he does mention that he donr. not mention them In 1901, 1302 ant 1903." 1 Mr. Williams agreed that If given the power, the first-thing tne Demo- -erats would want to do to prevent pan ics would le to build up In the Treas tiary, by a tax on the bunks, a re demption of insurance fund of about $13,000,0 0 0. A tax of onc-clghth of one per cent., he thought, would ,bo uffldent. 1 s WHAT DEMOCRATS INSIST OX. ; Mr. Williams serve J noth'e that the Democratic party . is going to (insist tipon legisiatimi to accomplish the following cbjei'ts: The publication' of he name. and postoMcea of all per sons contributing to campaign und?; five days" notice to the opposite party before a writ of Injunction Involving ftropertv rights can be ued out; the right of any one char ced with a con tempt of court committed outsi le tho view of the court, to be tried be fore a nentral Jude; the election of T'nlted States Senators by the people: , the enforcements of collection under the Income tax laws; investigation of U. so-caiieir wnite turner trust: rc o ovcr-cp;iaUzatlon of combinations:-amendment ofHhe inter Stale commerce acit ro as to further do sway with destructive- methoj of crushing competition surplus. The conditions", as used in this section of this act-shall be understood to mean conditions In all the United States or In one or more of the sev eral States, but whether the emer- provislons giving tha Secretary of the Treasury authority to accept bonds other than bonds of the United States as security for deposits, and pre scribing the interest that shall be paid on deposits. The rate proposed in the Bailey bill Is one-half of one per cent per month for the first x months and three-fourths of one per cent per month thereafter. Senator Bailey said that he Intro duced the measure at this time mairi- SERIOUS FORM OF GAMBLING. "When a group of men gamble at a wheel of fortune or at a game of cards," suid Mr. Bryan, "the injury done is confined to them and to these Immediately dependent upon ,them, but those who gamble In the grain pit er on the floor of the stock exchange deal in commodities or securities in which eighty millions of people are directly or Indirectly Interested. Farm products are Juggled up or Juggled down, stocks are boosted by the bulls or depressed by the bears, and the lv to minnlv i)mon. ,i country reeiB, tne enect. me it which have been pouring in on him 1 J,,, 'afL ,L up.Ijr and. dfe4nd ii om au over tne country. He said ha would otherwise have waited for suggestions by his colleagues for aa- NOT TUB MONOPOLIST ALONE. "And It Is not sufficient that we shall appeal to tho conscience of tho monopolist alone.. If a highwayman were to' engage a lawyer to follow a few rods behind. Mm w'lth a horse that he might have a ready means of escape after having committed an act of robbery, we would call thv. lawyer a party to the crime, und we would vlult upon him-the same punishment visited upon the principal in the rob bery and yet. It Is considered quite respectable to-day for the legal repre sentatives of predatory wealth to visit State capitals ' and national capitals nd prevent the enactment of laws intended to protect the public from private monopolies: and it is even more respectable for the salaried at torneys of these monopolies to follow close after the offenders and furnish them horses In the way Of legal tech nicalities upon which to escape from punishment. .And some of our Met ropolitan papers are In the same class with the unscrupulous lawyer. Is It not time to raise the' moral standard and to Insist that our laws shall be made for the enforcement of human rights and not for the protection of those who vlplate these rights? Shall we continue to be horrified at house breaking and the picking of one's pocket and yet view complacently and without concern these million-dollar raids upon the earnings of the entire poulatlon? Surely we are Justified In applying to the trust question the commandment Thmi shait not steal. ' (VAU IS HIE STATE G.O. f. 'sin. hoiItox versus sut. aoasis The ItepiililicanH of North Carolina Are at War. Is the News Tliat Comes from Washington DlflcTcmw He tween Di.itrlct Attorney Holton and Clwirman Knencer K. Adams ia i Caue a Breach in the Tarty Tsft A'ot to et the Solid State Del egal ion's Vote Without n light. It . 1 Salt! t'nclo Joe's I-Yk-niU Ma Bestir Tliem-elves In' His IW-Jialf Senator Simmon lntrodueea Two Hills rovldliiii J'or CaimN Sob- ItoMt Meeting to Nominate HouLli- rrn Man. BY H. K. C. BHYAXT. QUICK JUSTICK TO IJKUTK. Xcgro Xlio on Monday Xlght Tried to I clonlously Assault a Mmi""" ditions to the bill. DETERMINED TO GET OUT. Tliaw Informs His Counsel That They Must Take Action .at Once For lilts Itclease Willing to Go to Private Sanitarium. Flshklll Landing, N. Y., Feb. Harry Thaw is determined to leave Matteawan State Hospital and at a conference to-day informed hi coun sel that they must rake action at once to secure his release. Thaw told Law. yers Peabody and O'Reilly that he was willing to go to a private sani tarium if necessary, but that he must be removed from Matteawan. During. the day, Dr. Graeme Hammond- and Dr.. Jelllffe, the alienists retained by the Thaw family,' visited Than for some time. s Lawyer O'Reilly said that everything would ibe done that couid fee done to get Thaw away from Mat teawan as the, depressing surroundings were sucn as would ten on u man or his temperament. Thaw exercised In the open court to-day for t elf an hour with the tern perature only , a few degrees above sero. Mrs. Evelyn Nesblt Thaw and Mrs. William Thaw will visit Thaw, af ter which the elder Mrs. Thaw will go ta Pittsburg. . . Littleton Opposes Habeas Corpus Pro feedings. New. York, Feb. . If the counsel of Martin V, Littleton prevails, It does not appear to be likely that an early attempt will be made to have Harry K. Thaw released from Mattea wan Asylum on habeas corpus pro ceedings. ' "Harry K. Thaw has Wen acquitted of the charge of murder and is not a criminal,"- said Mr. Littleton to-day, "he Is at Matteawan for the purpose, of observation only. If th conditions and surroundings there are such that his health may be Impaired it is incumbent upon the State 'board of lunacy to have him removed to an Institution where other conditions and surroundings prevail." Daniel O Rellly, another of Thaw'a attorneys, went to Matteawan to-day to consult with the prisoner regarding possible future stens looking to h.s release from custody. iws of supply and demand count r Girl. Tried Yesterday audi suspicion here that Adams lovea v regulate prices, but these G?n' Wees. Years in the Peniten- telyou more than he doe. Taft Bo entirely suspended when a Yil-J 8Mar 88 ' say that If the cha v... ui -j j n "" ' : I men nnrt the district attorney CO ought to laws are f mftn tftan t V.. I M .1 1 mil- lions of dollars to the market value of ec'al .Tta' Observer. AProOPIUATION BILL UP. TIAILKY'i :xs fixAxci; For Iw-jtoslt VL BILK l'riirs For Iw-(oslt of , INiHU lone.vw as a Sleaiw or Itellcvlng financial KirlnerciiHf Mwnr Ito . questt Kor Copies of tlie Bill. Washington, Fetv l.-t-Senator Bal lsy to-day Introduced j his bill pro viding for the deposit of pulilio moneys as a means .of relieving financial trinKwicls and the ac reptance of promiscuous londs s r.-curlty for such drposit.4. The bill has been consider! by the minority as the measure Whjnd Uhlch they may powibly gather in tpe comln delate on the Aldrlch blllA Save for the addition of a provlsloit rauirlnir all banking sssoclatinns except tho:v located in central Tnrxr cities to Jrfp at lenrt two-thirds of their re t res. now reouired by law. in their "Sir. Bscoii Makes Inquiries Concern ing upcratioii or Imw I'roIUbltln iH'panmonts rTOni Incurring Lla hilities for Whidi No Appropria tion is .uauc. Washington, Feb. 4.-When the sections of the urgent deficiency ap propriation bill relating to executive departments wfcre reached in the Sen ate to-day Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, in quired concerning the operation of the law prohibiting executive depart tnents jrom , incurring liabilities for which appropriation Is not made. Mr. Hale explained that the law of ....... . . . . ...... . i ius nan maae sucn a proniDttion but he added, there Is an exception in fa vor of the War Department and Navy Department. - This exception ho hoped would alt-o bo done away with. Senator CImv, of Georcia. condemn ed the appropriation of between $4.- oun.oeo and Ji.000.000 lor tho JCavy Department in this .bill for. purposes not provided for by law. - Mr. Hakvdoclared that there always had been irncincles and that there always will be. lie regarded them as Inevitable. Mr. Clay persisted In his opposition and said that he would not be sur- itrlufi in Kf t h A unnrnnrfiiltnni trr the navy reaclt $175,000,000 annually. according to tho rate of Increase, go- n on iw. lie also predicted that within 10 years the expenses of the PoHtoffice Department would be In reas"d to $225,000,000 a year. All of the delH'lency appropriations com plained of in conectlon -'with unau thorised expenditures were retained In the bill. Benle Brother Plead Guilty. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 4. J. T. and S. V. Bealc. brothers, to-day entered pleas of guilty in the . corporation ' nopoly I to control the price or the one product or take millions of dollars from the value of another product. 'Alter a crusade which convulsed State and at least impressed the thought of the nation, we got rid of the Louisiana lottery and then we congratulated ourselves upon our vir tue. The men In charge of tha lottery never di: a tithe of the harm that the grain gamblers and the stock gamblers of New York do every day nor did they e-er exercise anything like the corrupting Influences over pol Itlcs. It ' has been asserted wlthou denial that 99 per cent, of the New York purchases and sales of stock anij of produce are merely bets upon the market value,' with no Intention on the part of the vender to deliver, or on the part of the purchaser to re .celve. w ' - NEITHER BUSINESS "iNOR ;COM : , MERGE , "This Is not business; ' It Is not commerce; it Is not speculation; it Is common, vulgar gambling, and when to the - ordinary chances that - the gambler takes are added the extraor dinary chances due to the secret ma nipulation of the market by those who are on the inside, tho stock mar ket becomes worse than an honestly conducted gambling resort If man takes a chance upon a wheel of fortune, be knows Just what his chance Is, and he knows that tho owner of the wheel haa a percentage of chances In his favor, but when a stranger gambles upon the stock or grain market he Is at the mercy of those who, by obtaining "control of the visible supply, cab destroy every natural law or business rule; which the outsider knows. While the laws of each Stats and the laws of the na tion should prevent, as far as laws can, the use of these commercial ac tivities for gambling purposes, there must be back of the law an educated public opinion and I beg the spiritual advisers of our great cities to consid er whether they cannot advance re llgion as well as morality by point Ing out that the commandment "Thou s'halt not steal" is openly and notori ously violated In tho stock market and In the grain pit by those who profess to believe In the Bible and to have respect for its teachings." "THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." Mr. Bryan's subject was "Thou Shalt Not Steal." He had not se lected the subject with any intention of presenting . an argument against stealing, he said, but it was his pur pose, rather to apply the command ment to present conditions. He di vided larceny Into three classes petit, grand and glorious. By glo rious larceny he said he referred to the tenency to regard stealing upon a large wale as less reprehensible than stealing upon a small sealo which has led to the suggestion that the commandment be amended tn read "Thou shalt not steal on a small scale." Sir. Bryan took th administration of tho tax laws to Illustrate What h rulfpd larceny in violation Of the law. "If two men live sldo by side," said. he, "and one contributes In taxation ten dollars when his Just share in only flve. dollars and the other only pays live when he ought to pay. ten. ono loses live dollars that he ought to keep, while the other keeps livo dol lars that he oueht to give to the gov ernment. The effect In this case Is Jum th Mine as If one man took th other .man's proierty and applied it to his own use. The tact mat me gov- rrnment. actinic as a collector, took the five dollars from th" man who is overburdened and gave it to the man who Is underburdened ooes not change the character of tho transac tion. . 1 ' PRIVATE MONOPOLY. "The subject of private monopoly furnishes tis another Illustration of larceny and here It Is not petit lar- eenv nor even errand larceny: It rises to tha oronortlons of a glorious lar ceny, not only because of tho amount taken, but because of tho respecta bility of those who received mo stoi- en good. Tho object of a private mo- . linton, Feb. 4. A quick and unex pected trial under an Indictmen for an assault with an attempt to com mit rape was disposed of In Sampson court to-day. The criminal Is a ne gro named Noah Brltt and his victim a young white girl of Mingo township, who is highly honored and of the best of character. She had been to the store of Mr. J. T. Williams Monaay evening, and on her return home was overtaken by the scoundrel, ,but her At trm tried reslstence ' and 'alarmln cries for help saved' her, A Mr. West and I. L. Jackson made the arrest, and Mr. Jackson, who Is a magistrate. conductcdlhe .preliminary trial and in ti.A ohKHiiee' Of the constable Wd him unit hroueht him to court to-day. H brought the prisoner into coun about 11 o'clock and Judge Neal also had the Jury drawn and, as soon us the bill came from the grand Jury, proceeded to try the case. The negro pleaded not guilty, but the Jury said he was guilty and upon their true ver dict his honor sentenced him to IS unn in thn tienltentlary. the full lim it of the law. The ' people praised Judre Neal fo. his good Judgment In conducting the trial with promptna'S nn,1 In nafetv and Justice to ,sii. tie complimented the good people of that section for their benavior in leiuim the law take Its course. BATTLE WITH MOORS. Reiort From Tangier Says 10.00 Moors Vre KJiiea in itsmo viim French Forces Sunday Night. London. Feb. 4. A London news aeencv publishes a dispatch from Tangier, saying there has been a bat tle, between the French and the Moors near Settat. Morocco, In which 10,000 Moors were killed or wounded and In which the French losses amounted to 160 men. Including four officers. Tho Moors, with intrepid bravery, charged right up to " the mouths of the guns until their corpses lay dead in piles on the ground. It Is possible that tho engagement referred to in the above dispatch is the same light that was reported from Paris lat night. In which eight Frenchmen were killed and B0 wounded. The fight mentioned In last night's dispatches occurred Jut south of Kasbah Bcr Rchld and this place Is near Settat, the eceno ut the ' engagement reported to-day. , Thi Kasbah Her Rihid engagement was a -sanguinary (nn and the number of Aioors attacking tne i-rencn was placed at many thousands. court on the charge of grand larceny thing sold; It Is to corner the market, of cotton from the Norfolk tt West-1 Tho theory Is that man's necessities em r.allway, valued at $3,177. Kach require him to buy certain thlna was given one year In the penitentiary. M. K Odenhall and S- M. Robinson al so charged with being Involved In tho theft 'w ill be tried Thursday and, Fri day, resp ctivley. . - ( - Both deny any knowledge that the fcotton was stolen. To Facilitate IVe of Bills or Lading. Washington. Feb. 4. Senator Mc Laurin "to-day Introduced a Mil to facilitate the use of bills of lading Is sued on Inter-State and foreign sh!n ewn jults, the Mil Is the samo menu as mndlunis of exchange. which sustala his life and add to his comfort. Wsn-ye there Is Competition the sellers bid sgainst each other and the purchaser Is able to secure what he needs at a price which Is approx. Imatoly fair. If, however, air of the venders tan be brought together In a combination, so that all purchaaers must buy of the same vender, com petition is eliminated and the man who fixes the price, fixes It arbitrari ly; and we knew enough of linman natiirw to know Yti I apt to charge all that the traffic will hear. "I Jnfit that the eommanimcnt StocklHiMcrs File Intervening Pctlt- , lt- ' Lynchburg, Feb. 4. Providence. R, I.. stockholders representing about $304,000 of the stock In the Pocahon tas Consolidated "Collieries Company, of this State, have' (Hod an Intervening petition . asking' to become parties complainant In a suit Instituted In the Federal court here several week ago by Philadelphia stockholders, nuking that the merger of several colliery companies, effected last year, be de clared illegal. A bond issue, limited to $20,000,000 to the New York Trust Company, New York City, I involved in the suit. The complainants will soon ask for an Injunction to stop tho Consolidated Companies operations pending settlement of this' litigation. Hope For Bluetields Aliaiidoiied. Philadelphia, Feb. 4. All hope for the steamship Blueflelds, which sailed from - Jacksonville., on January tlst for Philadelphia, has practically been abandoned and the best that is hoped for now is that Captain Iliggins anil his crew -may have been picked up by some foreign-bound vessel. It Is feared that the veswl foundered on the night of January 23d, when one of the greatest storms that has been known for years, swept the North A Hon tie comkI. . The Bluenelds was laden with lumber and carried a crew of IS rut n. Withdraw Quarantine. Baton' Rouge. La., Feb. 4. The Slate crop pest com m fusion lullnii to-day withdrew the quarantine on cotton shipments from loll weevil territory. The qnara.t tin. ha been In effect !ncc trn weevil wa first discovered In this Stale. The com mixtion find that thn t U now prartleiUiy over the en tire State and m quarantine ablest the shipment of cotton frm ln ftstcd territory I without eflrct. Observer Bureau. - ' Congress Hall Hotel, Washington, Feb. 4. The" North Carolina Republicans are at war but, the fighting up to tho present time has been under cover. The public has not become wise. Chairman Spencer B. Adams Is not popular with his people and the signs indicate thstrouble is about to. break out. , District Attorney Holton Is car rying a political blade for the chair man and may use it at the next State convention. Holton and Adams do not love each other. Their differences may cause a breach in the party. News to this effect "has reached Washington and onlookers are Interested. North Carolina is put down as a Taft State, but If a split comes Uncle Joe can non or some other candidate may get -a share of the votes in the Chicago convention. Holton Is down on tho White Houso list as a Taft man In fact, Mr. Holton came ell the way here some time ago to tell the presi dent Just where he stood. Adams fol lowed soon after and put himself on record. There was a great rush of Tar Heel Republican leaders to get tn the Taft band wagon when it dashett off. Holton,.Adams and others gave out interviews. But there Is still a suspicion here that Adams loves vor- me chair man and the district attorney comu to a fight over the chairmanship the President would back air. notion, feeling that Mr. Adams Is not quite sincere. There Is no doubt that H01 ton and Adams are at each other'a throats. The Winston-Salem man is a fighter and he has many rrienas among tho Republican voters 01 tne State. Adams la going to have a con- 1,-nt to hold his Dlace as chairman That the other presidential candi date will let Mr. Taft have tho North Carolina delegation to tho Chicago (convention without a fight no one need believe, llncio joe cannon u friends in the State and they will be stir themselves if the factions in tne Republican party do not get together, Among those who favor the Speaker are men of wealth and influence In the business affairs of tha State. rom rwl ri An 1 ends of news that I have been able to gather here I believe that the next Republican State con vention In the Tar Heel State will tie as lively as the one ei two j v Atu.m I not secure In his position. E. O Duncan, who has quit politics for a time, Is not in a position to neip Adams, as he was In the contest with Blackburn. ' r- There Is promise of a very blttet struggle for the-supremacy In the O. O. P. In North Carolina. If It comes, Mr. Taft may not get the State. Senator Simmons introaucea um to-day providing for the opening of an eight-foot canal from Newport river to the Town of Beaufort and one from Bogue Sound to Morehead City. Mr. Losslng L. Wrenn has been ap pointed postmaster at Slier City ana Mr. Roy C. Flannlgan at Greenville SUB-ROSA MOVE FOR SOUTHERN ER. Last year, when John Temple Graves, the eloquent man of Qeorgla. said that Bryan should get out of the way and let President Roosevelt have the Democratic nomination and Mayor Samuel 8. McNInch, of Char lotte, endorsed the sentiment, every body laugheJ; but strange things have come to pass and the great and only leader of the latter-day Democ racy, the Hon. William Jennings Bry-j an. I annlaudlnr the President in un-I stinted terms. There are some hers who taU seriously of putting Bryan and Roosevelt on the same ticket; of course no Democrat could bring himself to the place where he would let Teddy lead Billy, but those who favor this combination ieei cenain that Roosevelt would conslJer It an honor to be second man on such a ticket. But on the other hand there are Democrats here who are wonder ing how they will back-step from the position taken when the campaign warms ud. The Incidents following tho Roosevelt message have widened the breach between the factions of tho minority party and there Is but little hop of getting them together again. Within the last twenty-four hours a movement to ' nominate a Southern man has been started stib-rosa. If certain wise men of the party see lit to carry forward their project, a prominent son of tlje South may en- j ter the race seriously. It Is earnest ly believed here by many men of more than local reputation that man like Senator Daniel, of Virginia, would come pretty near to the goal next November If he did not cross it. His vote woulj depend, of course, upon the man who was put up against him. 'The Indication sre now that Roosevelt or Taft will be nominated at Chicago. In that event the East and the South would ! glad of an opportunity to stand to gether. The West Is going with the Republicans In any event. . - Those who follow Uryar blindly are raving over the President's mes ie but they are In a minority here. Conservative Democrats deplore a sit uation' that would make Demoerals MppUut! such a radical document, and some of the boUer men of Influ ence are beginning to protect. THE KENTUCKY SITUATION. The situation In Kentucky does not change. The deadlock continues and all hope tf electing Beckham has passed. In talking with a Ken tucky man who has Just "returned hero V learned that severil Interests sre at work to complicate the Ken- lucky situation. The whiskey people d!tllleni and saloon proprietors and keepcr di not want any anti-liquor legislation ahj they will do what the'! ran to keen the Fenitorial content of, Iwfore the General Assembly. The same Is trus with the railroads they are afraid that a 2-cent rats might be made If the lietriaimure had nothing t Ue to do. The American Tobacco Compmy 1 concerned; no legislation means money to that corporation. Threfore, It will le that the whifey. th- railroad certain tobaeeo Interests together to ' prolong fight In the senatorial contest, The Republicans care very little about the scnator&hlp. They have a desire that soars above that position; If they could-make 'some' sort of a trade with a faction of the Democratic par ty so that they would be permitted to re-district the State, making as semblv and congressional districts to suit them, they will seize the oppor tunity. - Each day the contest becomes more complicated. Some who have been on the ground do not believe that there will be an election this ses sion of the Legislature. " It Is re ported that Beckham, the shrewd able young statesman, is under hack. He has for the first time In his public career, met a real defeat. His pow erful machine Is about to fall him whtn he needs it most. . TAFT HAS WON IN O.HlO. ' From all indications the Taft forces in Ohio have about put the Foraker Dick combination out of business. In one of his specials Walter Wellman declares: Vomplete Is the political revolution In this State effected by the elimina tion or Foraker and the rise or Tart. Of the 88 counties In Ohio all but two or three and these small will send Taft delegates to the State conH vention. The Foraker forces have made no contest for control of the State -convention, and If they had done so the result would not have been changed, so overwhelming Is the Taft sentiment among the people. "Of the 4S delegates to the national convention at Chicago, all will be for Tart. The most the Foraker Dick people can now hope for is contesting delegations from two or three dis tricts, and It Is doubtful If there will be any contests. Mr. Foraker is be lieve to be too big a man to go to Chicago as a formal candidate for the presidency with na ether following from .his own State than a handful of rump convention contestants." PENSION BILL REPORTED. C0VBLNG riI03I SHOCK DOWNFALL FRANCO COMPLETE. Lisbon Beginning to Recover From Shack and Horror of Satnrday's Bloody Tragedy tttrong Undercur rent of Popular and (overnmental Nervontincsa will Remains Leader of Peaceful Wins of tlie Republi cans Agrees to a. Trace Provide! His Friend Now Under Arrest Are Liberated, Freedom or Press U Re stored and the KlectiotM Ordered No Conventional Mourning Rut Hags Are at IIalf.Mat and Officer car Small Badge or Crepe. Lisbon, Feb. 4. Lisbon is beginning to recover from, the" shock and horrow of Saturday's bloody tragedy, but a strong undercurrent of popular and governmental .nervousness remalrw. tho political tension Is slackening, al though the progressists refuse to Join the - concentration, of tho Cabinet which Admiral Ferreira do Amaral is forming from alt the monarchlal groups, because the conservatives are !n predominance. The pitch, how- ever. Is likely to be straightened out and a temporary union of all the mon archlal elements attained for the pur- pose of getting the1 country back lit a constitutional basis, "ending agita tion and restoring tranquility" as ex pressed by the leaders. Senhor Bernadino Mtchado, ' the leader of the peaceful wing of the Republicans, agrees to a truce provid ed that his friends now under arrest are liberated, freedom of the press re stored and the elections orderer. Ad. mlral do Amurai, the devoted friend of tho Queen, who assumes power, la committed to the reversal of tho en tiro policy of the dictatorship, the ab olition of repressive measures and the Committee on ApproprlnttoiM Reports, srehy." On Saturday government by rv,raoiy j-enMon ,s, ear i degree will be withdrawn, amnesty. Eliding June, 1009 Carries a Total ' of $150,860,000. Washington, Feb. 4. The Hoiue committee on appropriations to-day reported favorably the pension bill for the fiscal year ending Juno 30th, 1909. The bill as reported abolishes the pen sion agencies located at Augusta, Me.; Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Columbus. O.; Concord, N. II.: Des Moines, De troit, Indianapolis, Knoxvllle, Tehn.; Louisville, Ky.; Milwaukee, New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburg. San Francisco and Topeka and consoli dates them In one central distributing agency at Washington. The bill as reported carries a to tal pension appropriation of $150.'- 869,000, which Is $174,000 less than the aggregate estimates the exact sum savoable by the consolidation of the agencies. ' There was paid to 167,371 pension ers In the last fiscal year the total sum of $138,030,194: and the total of pensions that haa been paid for alt wars and for the regular establish ment since the foundation of th re public Is $3,698,016,732. , , "There Is now living," says the rc port, "no soldier or soldier's widow of the revolutionary war and there is no pension soldier living of the war of 1812 . but' at the end Of the last fiscal year there were on the roll &G8 widows of soldiers of that war." CAPTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE. Wlille on High Seas He Drinks Poison ev of Vessel Was Mutinous. Mobile, Ala.. Feb. 4. Captain Smith, of the British steamer Ash fleld, which left this port December 19th last for Nlpa, Cuba, committed suicide by drinking poison while on the high seas. The first mate took charge of the vessel and landed her at Mansanllla. January 9th, at which point tha second mate was called to the command by the mutinous crew A letter from one of the sailors says that trouble brok out on tha shin shortly after she left Mobile and that the crew was on the verge of starva tion when they mutinied. Following the suicide of the captain mutiny broke out afresh, according to the letter, ending with the first mate In charge. Even then dissatisfaction continued until the second mate as sumed command of the vessel. It Is Intimated that Captain Smith killed himself because of the troubles that had broken out on tha vessel. . . ' 1 STKAMEIl BURNED AT SEA. Plmcnlx Liner St. Culhbert Burned With Ixm of Fifteen of Crew LI le Boat Picks Up Survivor. South Well Fleet, Mass., Feb. 4. A wireless dispatch to The Assoclat ed Pre, from Captain Finch, of the White Star line steamer 4'ymrlo to night, told a thrilling story of the burning of tho Phoenix line steamer St. Cuthbert with the loss of 15 souls and the rescue of the survivors by 1 life boat' from the Cymric. Accord ing to CaptHin Finch's dispatch 11 men were drowned by the capsizing of a boat in which they had put off from tho burning steamer, three oth ers In anotbed boat were drowned, and a stowaway lost his life by fall ing through an open hatchway into the midst of the flames. The list of. names of the drowned men so far as known Include the fol lowing: THIRD OFFICKR WHITE. ' APPRENTICE BKOPY. SEAMKN CARLHKN. AUDRIF. VERMUKLEU. DKKRITAS, STEItl. ML'LLER. MAUTON. II KRKBOUT, VOOKHROOK. VAN TRVUBROOK. and KRONFELDT. Itecrler For Cincinnati Company. Cincinnati, O.. Feb, 4. A receiver for the Odell Company was asked to day by Trustee Pratt, of the Bank of Henderson,. Tenn., nnd other credi tors. The sum of $26,172 Is claimed as a Judgment held by the bank and creditors against the defendants. The petition names the Odell Company, Its Immediate precedecessors and the In dividual members of the !lrn as de fendants. The petition asks also that $13,921 said to hare passed when the company was chinned from the Odell Commission Company to the Odell Company in 1903 be held, that certain real estate In Avondale be held and that It be not disposed of pendlngthe settlement of the claim. Attorney Told to Leave. Clarksvllle. Tenn., Feb, 4. J. B. Tyler, a prominent attorney, to-day received a letter warning him to leave the country. The letter stated that If he and his family did not 'leav sal within two weka his property would are j he burned and he would be murdered, the The letter was signed "Night Riders.' etc., ordered, political offenders not. Implicated In deeds ot violence and the embargo on the press raised. FRANCO'S DOWNFALL COMPLETE. Franco's downfall Is complete. Ho recognised, tnat 11 wa Impossible to saddle the youthful king at the out set of his reign with the stern pro gramme Involving the immediate ban ishment and deportation of several hundred political offenders, to whlcii he had committed himself If he re-' talned office. He told a friend that tho assassination of the King ended his political career. He offered bis' services, however, but these were re fused. Practically no headway has ba3n made in unraveling the plot, of which the murder of the King and Crown Prince was bet one step. The police now admit that the three men arrest ed were not Involved. . - Every one of the desperate blind except the three men killed escapsd In the confusion. 'The Identification of these three throws but little light t'pon their , connections. While it I believed by ijiuo that they were In volved In the conspiracies which were unearthed in the latter part of Jan uary, it is possible that tha regicide was planned and executed on the spur of the moment after the appearance f a decree by a smull group of mil itant revolutionaries or anarchic so cialists, who may have imagined that the obliteration of tha Bragansa dy nasty would cause a spontaneous up- ' fining of th nfiAnlA. Thn rnninln rv was foiled In both respects, as the younger Prince escaped, and the peo ple wait In mourning for the double funeral on Saturday. . .. NO CONVENTIONAL MOURNING. A visitor would be struck by the ab. st nee of the conventional signs of na- tiuutfcl uitrui IJIIIH. Alio w II iw mnu DlUt flag of Portugal and the standards of the forelra eountrle are half.maatjH nd officers have black bands on thir i ma but only here and there is thero a knot of crepe at the windows Among the better classes the men wear black cravats. The royal arms shops are draped and the shutters half closed. 01 me European mates ara sending special missions to attend the funeral, these Including the Prince of Wales and the Duke of AostU Two of the ships of tha British fleet at Vigo are expected here. King Carlos having held rank as aVt admiral of the British navy. QUEENS STILL PROSTRATED. The two Queens remain In the pal ace with their dead, prostrated with, grief. The Queen-mother is broken hearted. Both are devoted Catholles and spend much of their time In prayer.. During the course of the dav Ad miral do Amaral succeeded In bringing the opposing factions to his way t thinking and finally announced .that the new Cabinet had been definitely constituted. In an Interview the new Premier said that he had accepted power .In order to pacify the disturbed public spirit and re-etabllsh normal life, b. cause he believed that the Portuguese people were devotedly attached to the monarchy. If revolution was ever possible. Ue said, the terrible crime which ha overwhelmed the nation would prevent Va realltatlon. Premier do Amaral plans to hold the new election In April. He. te gethel .with hi entire Cabinet, paid an official visit to the painre this after, noon. NIGIIT RIDERS AtiA! Visit Kentwky Town ami Destroy To bacco Warehouse autt Distillery Forcoisn of Factory Driven From It U Home. Salem. Ky.. Fb. 4. Two hundred masked "nUht rlJera" visited Bycus- burg. Ky., early this morning and burned Bennett's tobacco warehouse and distillery. Loss $40,000. The mob shot up the home of Wil liam Groves, foreman of the tobacco factory, driving him from the build- Inc and then he was captured and whipped almost to death. Henry Bennett, a member of the firm of Penn-4lt Bros., was taken from his horn, tied to a tree ami severely whipped. He Wfts left bound to the tree. Fennett Bros, operate sn Independent factory and hv been buying tpttacco from non-association growers It I claimed. When the mob called at Mr. Groves houe thev -eonested him come out. He. declined to do so. n! shooting at once besnn. Mr. Or' wa In a rmii ivith M w , and c.i ' dreu anJ a the bullets beran to t1--through the wln,!s he went .mt ! i order ta ?ae tho lives of hN fa'u.'y.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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