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4 CHARLOTTE DAILY OBSERVER, FEBRUARY 5, 1D03. ZljttljaxiQlUmstmx. J, p. CALDWKLL V. A. TQMriilNS Publisher?. SUBSCRIPTION' PIUCE: Daily One year Kj x months 4 u T&ree mouths Semi-Weekly 11.00 One year fx months Tore mouths ... PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT No. 54 South Tryon tvJf.SHS numbers: Business oOlce. B l"' IeUy editor s office, Mel 'B'14' editor's ollice. UU j-t,, A subscriber n ordering the address I hto weV changed.--w ft: cte thY address io I which it is go'ng at the time he auks fur the clause laaSvnK rate, .". turned n i tAs- ma v feel ur a irp item iiu 1 1. u"twv.- .. - pW u.eyiW reach aU Chariot . d a port" of the best PP this Ktate and upper Bouth '"olina. This, paper riven correspondents i as wide latitude as It thinks public pol icy permits, but it Is In i case re sponsible lor their views. It U toucn preferred that correspondents sikb their names to their articles, especial ly in cases-where they attack Persons or institutions, thousii this Is not de manded. Iho editor reserves the right to alve the nam, o corre.pon dents when they am demanded for the pur pose of personal satisfy tion. To re ceive consideration a oomm unliaUo" must be accompanied by the -true name of tlie correspondent. WEDNESDAY, FEBIU'AHY 5, 1008. - -..tm nvrii. ; THE IMWlll t " - " LOOKER. The State takes The News an(i Courier severely to task-for Its pt-r-. tr Prvan and aixtent orpll,,,u " - reads that paper a lecture from which we clip the following paragraph: Mr. Bryan is now the. choice of the Democrats of South Carol na. the South, and of the l otted States. It s as certain as anything can be In politics that he will be nominated by the Den ver convention lo had the party. He IS now Its standard-bearer. The work that 1s done by Democratic papers against Bryan between now and the July con vention cannot be undone after that con - vent Ion. Those that assail tiryan now are as saulting the democratic party, because he Is now the only leader the party has. ' Our Charleston contemporary may soy that It cannot affwt the result In South Carolina, and that the South wilt sup port the nomine of the party regardless of his personality. That Is quite true, hut because It is a Southern paper and is supposed by the uninformed to repre sent polities! sentiment In Houtli Caro- , Una. The News and Courier's attacks on Brysn are gleefully reproduced by Re publican and assistant Republican papers In the doubtful Ulster That helps to e.reste the impression that Rryan will be knifed In his own party; and that. In turn, kills enthusiasm. Lnrk of enthu slssm means lack of votes on election day." , This reasoning seems to be good; granting the correctness of the un ' spoken premises, "quod erat demon strandum" can ba written to the conclusion in all good conscience; but there is a premise, that is hot con sidered. A paper has some mind of Its own; and there is such a thing as a Journalistic conscience. Duty to party Is atroog motive but it Is not We only motive. If all papers could hellev as Th RfnfA believe that Mr. Bryan's poli;Ie are wise and the man himself 'qualified for the high office that he seeks, the case would be very . different. tBut some of us believe neither in Mr. Bryan's moet funda mental political ideas nor In the . man's ability to administer the af fairs of the nation wisely. We have iuuq uuuiu nisi i ne .newi anu Courier would prefer to be in the company of the overwhelming ma jority of the Democratic press; It Is not easy tt fight alone nor plcas.int to" be In disagreement -with contem poraries together with whom one has foyght many political battles In other days. Rut a conviction Is a convic tion even If It force one into a hope less minority. This paper admires the persistence of The News and, Courier, not because It Is out of har mony with what seems to be the dominant-sentiment of the party, but because it Is true to itself, the first duty of a Journal. The Columbia State happily finds Itself In agree ment with Its ennte Democratic press. We congratulate nd wish It well. But It should be charitable to a paper that fights a lonesome battle for conscience sake. Tilt LY, A HOrKITL IlOOSTKIt! This remarkable" out-giving was fur nished In a Wartitngton press dispatch of Monday's date; ' ' '"Henator Xewlands. whose uncut Prynn was on Ms recent visit hi re, in un inter- natwl It will lie acnlnat the protest of one-fourth of the party, the. conservative element. Hut if ljryiin takes (be nomi nation and an aiitl-ltoosAvelt man 'Is named by the Republicans. I'.ryan m'ght ret the Roosevelt Republican vote and fc elected. If the eotiservatlre Democrats would come In line also." Was there ever anything farther fetched than that? Note the contin gencies suggested by this host and chief Washington fugleman of the Nebraskan. It is admitted to begin with that Mr. Bryan Is opposed by one-fourth of the membership of the party. Then: If an antl-Itoosevelt Republican la nominated (of which there is no probability), Bryan "might" get the Roosevelt-Republican ote (which he never will) and be elected (as he never will) "If" the conservative Democrats: would come In line also, Surely Mr. Newlands has marked out a labyrlnthian way for the Peerless One to the White House; so Intricate, Indeed, as to forbid the prospect of ' his ever getting there. Yet with this confession of hopelew nesa on his lipj the Nevadan stili shouts for the nomination of the N tiraskan. And so we go. Chancellor Day also thinks a few things and cuts the string from a bunch of adjectives that awear back at the President most audaciously. 3t ever the President and the chancel lor meet when -each Js in bad temper and n- adjectival trim. It would be worth a fortune to be there.' A FURTHER PKPRES8IXG FACTOR i ix A depressing PEJUdD. The Wall Street Journal which. as u hav remarked aforetime. 1 a great deal bftfef ihan lt name, ad- rtin- th. iso ooo. idle railroad can and the hundreds of thousands' of unemployed laborers In the country says: " . - . . "At such a time as "lb Is, President Roosevelt chooses to send to Congress a special message of so ra-ping ana irn ' tstins m. character, so disturbing to con. ndence. so provocative or runner tton that it will not serve to fill a single pne of these empty cars with freight. It will not fire a single furnace, it will not provide a Job for a single laborer out of work. Very much that the President saya Is absolutely true. Hut the way he saya It and the occasion he takes for saying It, are most unfortunate. Instead of ad vancing the splendid policy of the square deal,' with which his name is identified, arid with which The Wall Street Journal has so long sympathized, this speech is calculated' rather to furnish fuel for Socialistic : disorder than fuel for indus trial activity." This Is the view of the message talc en by a great many of the leading Democrats and Democratic newspa pers of the country. It Is not that they disagree with the recommenda tions; in the main they are approved; but the objection Is to the manner in which the President puts his case; to his violent, abusive, alarming lan guage. The Wall Street Journal says It believes "In publicity, . in govern ment regulation. In enforcement of lawr 'in the removal -of -the grave abuses of Individualism,, in order to prevent the evil of Socialism;" all of which is good doctrine, to which we all agree; 'but it does not think it seemly that the President should go on the warpath with a club and 'hit every head that Is not opened In laudation of him and his policies and his methods of enforcing them. This Is a rational ground of dissent, and It M not surprising to read that the Dem ocrats who applauded the message up roariously when it was read In the House, because they observed that it embirrassed the republicans, have taken another view of it upon second thought. CIIAnfiEfl WITHOUT EVIDENCE.. The following paragraph Is from the President's message: 'There are ample material rewards for those who serve with fidelity the, mam mon of unrlBhteousness; but they are dearly paid for by the people who per mit their representatives, wnetner in public life. In the press, or in the col lates where their, young men are taught. to preach and to practice that there is one law for the rich and another'for the poor." Surely It Is not too much to ask that the man who has preached the doctrine of a square deal so strenu ously and eloqnently, give to the world the names of papers and colleges that are In the pay of "predatory wealth." Will a President of the United States allow suspicion to be cast upon all hermito of such indefinite charges? A square d"a1! ' Heaven defend us from such square deals. Who are theso reprehensible papers and colleges? We want the. names! Soma months ago Mr. Bryan charged In a puhiic speecn In Richmond as we remember that the press of New York is in the pay of the "malefactors of great wealth ana nrem-hod the doctrines it was paid to proclaim; and when pressed for spe clflcations was forced to so modify his accusations as to amount to a prac tical withdrawal of them. It is no wondep that these two men so great ly admire eRCh other they are so much alike. ' miakt hit i:x.irsTini:D. The following Is from The New York Sun: "The Hon. Jonathan Bourne has ral lied to president Hoosevelfs bugle blast. Tho whole Pacific const, Including the San Frnnclsco sand lots, throbs and palpitates with ecstasy, - "The boycott looks tip again. The 'scat' betakes him to the tangled hush. A livelier iris breaks upon the burnished walking delegate. The eye of (tampers now Humes expcctnnt, and victory nes tles In his bristling mane. "Arkansas Jeff falls Into line. He whoops the Oaark foothill till they ring again and all hands 'snuff around.' Ne braska Hill avows that lie has never been so happy In his life. The Hon. John Hharp Williams, having worked the redneck propaganda for a eenatorahlp, surveys the scene with tranquil resigna tion. Korrel Top Carmac-k, still manip ulating the long-haired multitude In Ten nessee with ft view to ofll-'e. may be re lied upon for a yawp of special volume. Krom far and near the clans assemble. Ijowo with capital: Down with property! Iet us Join the Carmagnole'" This is quite delightful, but it out Hcrods lferod. The President In his wildest moments of Indignation was never as unfair as this. Irony Is per mitted by all thp laws of rhetoric to overstep rhe bounds; but when, even for the sake of being bright, The Sun compares Mr. Roosevelt to Robe spierre and his followers to the mad dancers of the Carmagnole, one shuJ dors. Intemperance of criticism can never cure, Intemperance of speech. Certainly Mr. Roosevelt will be little saner for talk like this. We are not quite sure whether the poem In yesterday's paper credited to John Charles McNeill was his or not. It was found among his effe-ls but so has been poetry at least one poem which Is vry famlllar---whli;h he had merely copied In his own -hand from books nnd which he would have never thought of claiming as his own. "Night and' Day" may have been his production or it may not. We mere ly suggest his habit of copying from books, which he did not want to cut. poems which particularly struck him. to forestall any charge of plagiarism If any one should chance to know that this one was the work of another. The Houston Poet says that While the women of New York are wearing fur till they look like grizsly bears, the penonh-ss angels of Heavenly Houston bak In Incomparable sun shine; and thtt neither In Houston nor In Heaven 'it women wear furs In the winter. , All very true, hut the other place is also furle if -our theolosr is straight LIBERTY AND IN'CONSISTEN'Cr. .The chief of police of Chicago says remembering, of" course, the Hay- market riots among other disorder. "Never in the history of Uica nave anarchists and enemies of law and order been more dangerous. than at present." This is part or a ais patch which tells tha his confidential men have given him reports of meet ings at which the assassinations of the King and Crown Prince of Portugal and of President McKInley were praised in Inflammatory speeches and at one of which meetings one speak er aald among other things: "I am with tha mob. I would CO OUt right now with a mob behind mo and kill verv nolicsman on the street and ben throw their bodieg Into the lake like so manv dead fish. I have more respect for a robber than for the un- emcloyed. The robber gets It, while the unemployed hasn't aense enough to get it." .This is certainly "the land of the free",lf not "the home of tha brave." Come to think about It, Is it not Just a trifle too fr;e when creatures in th form of men may arise before audiences of their kind and, undlsturbad, applaud assasalna tlon and uggst the murder of the officers of the law and throwing their bodies Into the water? It is, in some directions too free ft county white in some particulars its administration of Justice is too u nequal. We arrest and lock 'some men up for tht most trivial Infractions of law. while others may without restraint attack the very foundations of society. A subscriber at Columbus,. Ga., sends The Observer this clipping from a Cleorgla pa par: "The good old stork has visited several of the homes around here since our last, leaving- a little sirl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Jackson, Miss Vera Culifer, a boy at the home of Mr. Tom Wllkerson and a girl st Mrs. Jims Ki ll it Cs. Lt's all serve God better in the future than we have in past. And accompanies the clipping with the question: "Why don't you get a city editor who can produce stuff like this?" We Intend to. Neither the present city editor nor anybody on his staff has the ability to do It. Not one of them ever thlnka of handing out an adm3nltion 1IU that In the last sentence of the above and we are tired of their negligence abou ad ministering good counsel where It Is timely and apropos. The Observer missed this at the time, but a friend in eastern Carolina sends it with ths statement that It is part of an editorial which appeared In a 'recent number of The Norfolk Vlrglnlan-PIlot: Tommy Taggart has a maggot In his head, But Is only a braggart, driving a Jagcart, A leader who Has to be led. If the party would bounce him, and Brian renounce him. The Iiemoeratn might at the most. Hear the chairmanship named without reeling ashamed. As they have been of him from the nrst. . , Thirty days! Our correspondent thinks the perpetrator ought to have l)tty. NEGRO HOY ARRESTED. Colored lontli Who Sought to Pfcr- N?trat a Nervy Nat Stunt In Char lotte Comes to Grief. Otoper W allace, the colored youth I who did a Nervy Nat stunt In reliev ing R. II. Jordan A Co. of $9.20 Mon day night, was arrested by Officers Malcolm nnd Johnson yesterday morn Ing, less than 12 hours after the crime was committed. .Wallace when can- , . a i . , . .1 vuiru . Mm, uo... uur, mg open fireplace In a colored woman's house In Brooklyn, where he had i .!,.! .f. M. M,t ' " ; nigm escapaae. jn ni prrson was found IS. 10 and in the possession of the woman a balance of 15.25. Both sr denied any knowledge of the affair when the officers arrived, but when a search disclosed the tell-tale change, they made a clean breast of the whole transaction. They were taken to the lock-up, where tney spent tast nignt, pending a hearing before Recorder Smith this morning. The credit of the arrest Is due to Officers Malcolm and Johnson, who took the case in hand Monday night and made the haul yesterday morning. A flrly. accurate .description of the bov was secured from the several young men who accosted him on Mr. F. J. Robinson's porch Monday night prior to the robbery. After that It was but a question of following tip the clues. The darky. It will e re- tailed, 'phoned up to Jordan's asking that a box of Huyler's candy and the change fcir $10 be sent down to Mr. K. J. Robinson's on North College street ajid when It arrived, he secured the change ond skipped. Christian Endeavor Meeting To-Day, There will he a meeting of the business board of the Christian En d avor State I'nlon to-day In Win- ston-Halem. This board Is composed of officers of the union "and, a fotr members especially, appointed, and is similar to the executive committee of all organizations. The principal business to come before the board ut Its meeting to-day will be the se-! lection of the place for holding th neit session of the State convention of Christian Endeavor. It is not Improbable that the decision will be In favor of Elon College, as there hns been a desire on the part of the l-;nd avorers there for several years for the convention to meet with them. Mis Mamie Rays Is treasurer and prcse superintendent of the Ptate tin'on. and Is therefore a member of tho business board. 1 Urst Quarterly Conference To-Nightlto Rev. Frank Bller will presch to- nignt in inn u.-moiisi cnurcn at North Charlotte and afterwards hold the first quarterly Conference of the North Chsrlotteand Epworth charge. A full attendance of the congrega tion at the preaching service, and of the official membi-ra of the church at the quarterly Conference, is urged. This church has been organised only A fW m.tlth l.tit 1 1 I, n. . rapidly, and Its location Is stich as to tntike It accessible to a large com- munlty. Jtev. A. R. fturratt, the pas- tor. Is doing a faithful work and is mietlng with succes Mrs. J. A. Smith, of Bessemer City, was registered among the guests at the geiwya yesterday. PALMETTO CAPITAL .NEWS , PARDON IX rxiSCAL CASE, Governor Ansel. Known as a No- Iardon Governor, ltclent and Sets rc a Negro .From VI bom a Coii- feeMiuii Whs .Forced, Thereby Caus ing a Miscariiage of JuMJce One Other (Granted and Four Hcfuacd South Carolina to hend Delegates to Immigration Convention at Tampa, a ia Aeit Week Mr. It. B. Itoach ru Three Bullet Into m Negro' Jlidc Present Indications - Are Against m State ' liicaiiiimicnt lids Year. y -. Observer Bureau, . . 1422 Main Street. Columbia, 8. C, Feb. Nobody can Justly accuse Governor Ansel . of having the pardon habit He has granted less pardons ttran anyGoyernor xif this State for per haps twenty year. But he wrote out an unconditional pardon to-day for a negro who had been the victim of a remarkable case of miscarriage of Justice, brought about, the papers in the case show, by the' negro's be ing- weak-minded and popular clamor against htm making It dangerous for his people to come to hU assistance. The direct cause of hla conviction was also remark-able. He was found guilty of attempted criminal assault upon a respectable married woman,! Mrs. Travis Bartleld, upon a confes-1 sion that now turns out to have been extorted from him by a clever, edu cated negro fellow-prisoner, named A. a. Izlur, who had been promised a pardon for bigamy if he would gek a confession. Izlar used a Bible and worked all night on the negro's superstitions, confessing afterward that he also told him that if he did pot confess it would go hard with him and that it he did confess he would get off light. The Jailer sub mits an affidavit in which he says he overheard Izlar telling the negro this and seeing him use a Bible In the cell with him. The name of the negro is Eddie Benson. He was sentenced to thirty years in 1906 by Judge Hydrlck, who with Acting Solicitor .M. U Smith and many prominent people of Camden, Including Mrs. Barileld herself, now Join in the prayer for pardon. In addition to thij there are . aeveral affidavits among the papers to estab lish an alibi for Benson. - The petition was presented and urged by Chief of Police Benjamin Halle, who has been eleven years chief of pollve and who was the pros ecutor in the case, but who recently has been very active in securing a pardon, fcaylng in 'his affidavit to the Governor that he "feels It would be a failure to perform his duty before God and man were he to remain si lent." , Governor Ansel also pardoned an other negro to-day, Thomas Goree, given three years at Newberry for assault and battery upon another ne gro whom he caught in a compromis ing position with his wife. Goree made a frank statement, that sus pecting mat this other negro -was "fooling with his wife," he went out to where he had Toason to find them and fired upon him with a, shotgun. The -.petition was presented by his attorney; State Senator Cole L. Blease. W hile serving sentence on the chalngang Goree saved the life of a guard by protecting him from an assault by another prisoner, and tnus prevented several escapes. The Governor refused pardons in fo!lowln, ca.pfl, Oeorire, Thomn. son, Oconee, manslaughter, two years; SP"0' Harrison, Marlon, house breaking, three years: William T. Bell, Horry, manslaughter, ten years John Anderson, Spartanburg, man slaughter, three years. IMMIGRATION DELEGATES. South Carolina Immigration advo cates are taking special interest in the immigration convention called by Governor Broward to meet in Tampa, Fla., Wednesday of next week, and a strong delegation will be present from this Htate. Oovernor Ansel to day , named the following delegates from this Htate: E." J.' Watson, Colum bia: Secretary of State It. M. Mc- Cown, Florence; Dr. R. A. Lancaster, Columbia: Nelson C. Poe, Greenville; William E. Pelham. Newberry: J. F. PanUler, Orangeburg: James Simons, dharleston; Knox Livingston, Hen nettsville; W. A. Schrock, Camden; Ir. E. C. Doyle, Seneca; Henry C. Markley, Greenville. SHOOTS A NEGRO. Mr. R. B. Roach, one of the candl- dates for alderman, became Involved in a difficulty with a former negrj employe name J Henry Nelson ot Mr Roach's store, corner Gorvnls end Gates street, this afternoon and shot the negro thre times In the thigh. chest and htnd. Nelson Is not be lieved to be fatally Injured. Mr. Roach refuses to talk. There had been bad blood between the two on account of Nelson's dismissal by Mr itoacn. .Nelson nad set uo a meat business near Mr. Hoach's place. NO STATE ENCAMPMENT. The present Indications are that there will be o State encampment of the three regtnwnta of infantry comprising the Boufn Carolina Na tional i.uara at coiumoia this sum mer. A bill Is now pending In Congress railing for an appropriation of a mil lion dollars for summer encampments three hundred thousand of which Is to be used for the artillery branch and the remalnJer for the depart ments. If this bill becomes an act and it Is believed here by those whJ have recently visited Washington that It will pass, the low country Third Regiment will probably again be sent Fort Moultrie for coast defense Pract,c - wnl, an UP countrr rcgl-. merit, probably the First, from fh piedmont section, will be sent to Fort Moultrie aUo as r "support" to the more experienced Third Regiment. It being the desire both of the authori ties at Washington anJ Adjutant ! General Boyd to give the mountain soldiers experience In ccat defense work. "nain Balloting Kcps 1. Frankfort. Ky., Feb. 4. Another sham ballot for United States Henator w-a made necessary to-day bcane each house of the Legislature adjourn ed in respect to the memory of Wll liarn OoebeU who died eight years ego, Only It members answered and no formal ballot was taken. - THE NINETEENTH'S SENATOR. "Orange" Presents In a True Light the Episode Out of Which Grew a Clash Between MaJ. John W. ura Itam and Lieutenant Governor Winston Mr. Graham's Splendid -Work as a Legislator Praised. To the Fdltor of. The Observer: A session of the Legislature is an ex acting test not only of the Intellectual fitness of the. various members, but also of their moral character. ; The people would appreciate this fully could the se cret History oi an our legiBiaii'iu u spread before them. They could see then the great part which personal am bitions and private interests .play in that legislation. Indeed, to many members the Legislature has been but a stepping alone to something that they fondly Imagine is higher and better la public life. This is not an Ideal condition. In truth it Is an evil sometimes '.a very great evil; else why should our statute books be so largely nuea witn acts re pealing acts? In a free,. a growing and a prosperous State, there can be no more Important or responsible position than that of law-maker. The people should no more select a man to lglslate for them, who is warped with prejudice and with passion, than they would select such a man to bold Impartial scales for them In their courts of Justice, Experi ence, sobriety, wisdom, should be no leas characteristics of a legislator than of a Judge. influenced by eonsineranons ot trus kind, the people of the nineteenth sen atorial district, in the fall of lKt, select ed as their senior Senator MaJ. John W. uranam, or Hiiisboro. ' Major Graham at the time of his elec tion was verging upon old age, but In full vigor of inlnd and body. For twenty years he had been out of politics. In the sense of being a candidate for political office, devoting his time and talents to the study and practice of his profession. He has never been a polltichin In the ordinary signification of the term. H1" constitutional reserve prevents him from being a good mixer.. Guided by his own conscience and Judgment, too. he, a few years ago, took the unpopular side of j two great puduc questions, ana u is sel dom that the people forgive a man for being wiser than they. Notwithstanding these disadvantages and limitations, he was unanimously nominated, and tri umphantly elected, on account of the weight of his character, the solidity of his judgment and the perfect confidence of the people In his conscientiousness. In the light of both sessions of tha leg islature he has wholly justified this eon fldence. It "is not claiming too much to say that had the Legislature of 1907 adopted his views in the matter of rail road regulation, there would have been no necessity for a special session in 19n8. As to this, however, . there is room for difference Of opinion, but there can be none as to his tactfulness, tils wisdom and his magnanimity at the special ses sion. I, In writing this, have bad no com munication with Major Graham; have In fact had no conversation with blm In re gard to the matter; do not know his point of view even; but It does seem to me that the episode out of which arose a sharp verbal clash between him and the Lieutenant Governor at the session of lMf has not been presented in its proper light, and I have waited until the matter had become history nnd asperities had been soothed to present the views of some, at least, of the major's consti tuents noon it. On Friday he. as chairman of the committee on railroads, had secured from the Senate a distinct declaration of its policy In the matter of passenger rates. It adopted -by a good majority, on Us third reading, his bill providing a 2H cent flat rate. Thatafternoon he was called to Hiiisboro on Important busi ness. Returning to Raleigh the next day. he found that the very Senators who the day before had voted with him had. In hla absence, mind you, (for in that is the stlng) contemptuously cast his bill Into outer darkness, under circumstances and with language that, as bis friends thought, amounted to a serious and un justifiable Indignity to him. Not only this, a committee had been appointed fo confer with a similar' committee of tha House and be. though chairman of the ; Senate committee on railroads, had been omitted from this conference committee. What wonder, then, that h4, a proud, self-respecting man, should have used In his speech thrtt night while writhing under a sense of Injustice, if not foul play, language that was rot parliamen tary! Then came the extra session called for the express purposo of putting In effect the m-cent flat rate. Was there ever be fore an Instance-in which a man might with more perfect propriety shout his lo trlumphe In the presence of those who had heaped indignities upon htm. Yet,' Ignoring the past, tie went quietly, pains takingly and laboriously to work upon the business of the extra session no tri umphant speeches, no provoking, "I told you so's." And then later, when the oc casion presented Itself, he paused In the midst of a speech to make a magnanim ous end graceful apology, to the Lieuten ant Oeverne-for the excessive het of his remarks et the session of 1907. an apology that was met In the spirit In which It was given. It was beautifully done on the part of both. "It Is the glory of a man to pass over a trans gression. . I must not be understood as, rn any sense, opening up old wounds, as mak ing an attack upon "any person. Senator or not The people of the district which Major Oroham represents have rights In the matter. They know his earnest de votion to duty, his patient industry, his unwavering firmness, his staunch hon esty, his indomitable courage and his Prevailing kindness of heart. Some of them are old Confederate soldiers, and hey know (who so well7 that on the battle feld he was ene of the bravest of the brave;- while on the march or In. the camp, no officer was more tlioncht fully considerate of their com fort and welfare.- It was as the people's representative that be went to Raleigh; as their representative he legislated there. They have watrhetr bis course and snprove It. They sympathised with (lull l llt", ", .... nmphn. snd will always glory in bis character as a man and In his wisdom as a legislator. ORANGE.' Will Go to Rock, Hill. Several leading members of the executive committee of the local toymen's Missionary Movement will spr nd Hundny in Rock Hil, 8. C. 1n st'iutihg a similar organisation there. Mr. E. A, Cole, of Trinity Metho dist church, spent a day In Rock Hill recently and spoke to the Christian people on this subject The Indlca trons' are that the way has been well prepared foe an efficient -branch of thin world-wide movement there. I and the Charlotte contingent goes to perfect the organization and give thoss) interested some definite plans by which to operate. . To Prohibit Speculation In Futures. Jackson, Mlss'FebJ 4. Governor Voel to-day sent a message to both houses of tha Legislature recommend ing that, laws be -enacted to prohibit spe-culaflon In futures and to close Bucket shops; that ia loons be voted out of existence at the earliest pos sible moment and an amendment for rntltittionl prohibition be submit ted to the pope. ' i r ..'.- Thcst arc a sample 'line we ordered out . to buy from and arc the newest things to be ha'd. Only one of a kind. You can see a nico display of these in the show window. ' Prices range from $1.73 to $6.00. ; , r Half Price on All Cloaks ' 7 Our newest and nobbiest styles all go at just half the original price: . , $ 7.50 Cloaks.. .... . . . . . ... ... $ 3.75 : $10.00 Cloaks.... .... ...... ....... ,...t$ 5.00 $15.00 Cloaks... ... ..... ..... ... .V. ...$ 7.50 ; $20.00 Cloaks ..$10.00 $25.00 Cloaks, . ..... ..... ...$12.50 $30.00 Cloaks.. ..... ........ ... ..... ...$15.00 Men's Overcoats Half Price : - -, ; '..' ... ,;' ' . ' 1 We prefer the money to carrying these Overcoats tt next season, so the following arc half price: $10.00 Heavy Mixed Overcoats . $5.00 , $12.50 Heavy. Mixel Overcoats..',. $15.00 Heavy Mixed Overcoats. . , One-Third Off For all medium and lightweight Overcoats and Rain coats for Men: $15.00 Overcoats and Raincoats. ....$10.00 $18.00 Overcoats and Raincoats. . . $20.00 Overcoats and Raincoats . . . . $25.00 Overcoats arid Raincoats. . ... All Men's Overcoats and Raincoats price for cash only. , ' , . American Lady and Artistic $3.00 Shoes For snap, comfort, fit and wear these two makes arc hard to beat. Anybody will be well pleased with either Shoe. All styles of Vi'ei, Gunmctal .or Patent; bals, bluchers and buttons. All' t t r I 1 1 1 J4H I- f I a m 1 1 . y ; I. won of White Lawn Waists which ..,$6.25 ...$7.50 ....$12.00 . ... $13.34 ....$16.67 at discount $3.00.
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Feb. 5, 1908, edition 1
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