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OIARLOTTU DAILY 0 i r a J. r. CALDWELL L). A. TOMMUAS Publishers. MONDAY, MAY 23 ; IMS. A BILLIOX DOIXAK HALF-COX . GBESS. . Nearly U of u remember Speaker Reed' "Billion Dollar Congre' and the nart It clayed In politics, ' Now . we have the flrst or Ions aesalon of Congress reaching billion proportion. ' It "la 'estimated that the. approprla tlona for the aeaalon now near an end will aggregate $1,021,080,000. The FoetofSc iDftrtmpnt. leads, of course. To It la appropriated 9221, m.00. 1 Next come pensions, swol 1 len by recent extensions to the enor inona total ; of 16S,000,000 this, " forty-five years after the freat war closed. In order follow $154,000,000 for permanent annual appropriation tJ22,l2.000 for the- navy; $120,000, 000 for the object named In the sun dry civil bill; $S,000,000 for the . army; and a Job lot of smaller ap propriations. Including $25,000,000 for public building. fll.42,0 for agriculture, $11,600,000 for the Die trlct of Columbia, ana $4,000,000 for . the diplomatic and consular service: - Nothing, thanks to Speaker Cannon, ts spared for an Appalachian and White Mountain format reserve. It will be Bern that despite some cheese paring economy where no political -nd -ww itfvtew th are re gate t suf ficiently Impressive. All these appropriations are for the ' fiscal year beginning July 1st, and the question which arise In connection with them Is, of course, the one of way and means. It 1m. too early to glv an accurate estimate of the gov ernments revenues during this twelve months' period, but members of the appropriation committees think they will run somewhere between $850, 000,000 and $900,000,000: This would mean a deficiency of between $125, 00,000 and $175,000,000. Inas much as the current fiscal year will show a deficiency of be tween $00,000,000 and $5, 000,000, Chairman Tawney, of the House ap proprlatlona committee, freely pre dicts that by July 1st. 1909. the hugs Treasury surplus which the country was so fortunate as to have on hand when trouble flrst developed last Sep tember will be quite wiped out. If. therefore, another such boom as that of last year bcfjro Bi-ptember shouM develop any time toon the Treasury could not again be relied upon to break the force of the inevitable re action. It would In alt probability have no lack of troubles to contend with Itself. Let us hope that Wall . Street, recognizing the Secretary of the Treasury's Inability to sorvj aj cash boy when called upon, will not start up any fresh gyrations fjr quite a while, yet. Billion dollar sessions of Congress come high, but, as this Is a b'g cous try and full of politics besides, we simply must have them. TIIK POIXT OP VIEW. , With this we; print a communlca' tlon from. The New Tork Evening Post of a recent date. It Is ofc Inter est for its facta and deduction,: but chiefly ao a Illustrating a fact which we have suggested . before that the point of .view of the North and South of the racial differences is as . far apart aa the pole and In our Judg ment ' Irreconcilable.. The 1 North thinks that there la but one differ ence between the races and that the trivial matter ' of Complexion. The South know better than this and the sections will , never agreed ' But let ua give Mr. Milholland the floor: COMMON SENSE Vg. RACE PRE. J I "DICK. .- : To the Editor of The Evening Post INVASION' OF THE AIR AT nAXI. The New Tork Globe, which for some time past has had a way jf ""getting '"more' talk out of the Wright brothers than any other newspaper, got Wilbur Wright by the button hole In New Tork the ether day and obtained for Its readers the first au thentic account of the recent aero nautical experiments on the North Carolina coast. It learned th.it the eight-mile flight axiil'int the wind which was terminated by an accident was really one of the shorten flightf ' made. Once thirty-two miles wif covered by the aeroplane, once twtn-ty-four, and once elRhteen all at the rate of about forty miles an hour. The accident of which the dispatches made so much was in fact a trifling affair and had nothing to do with the cessation of the experiments. NVws- : paper correspondents were on every hand. and. the secrecy for whii-h the Wrights sought the North Carolina sand dunes being quite lost, it was decided to knock off for the present. "As for the accident," said Wilbur Wright, "the damage could have been repaired on the spot and at a cost of not over . ISO. Wo were going along at a good rate not more than twenty feet from the ground, and just as we neared a little knoll the operator touched a lever that sent the ma chine downward instead of upward, aa planned, and we dipped into the ground. Had we been fifty feet In the air at that moment there would have been no accident, for that would have given us paee In which to drop and to recover in time to escape striking anything. However, th ac cident wss not serious, and disar ranged our plans only slightly, aa we were about ready to leave for the North. Had we cared to remain there longer we could easily have made re pairs and continued our experiments; but wa had done practically all we went there to do." The Globe learna Indirectly that vanadium steel will be used In the construction of future flying-machines. It grows Increasingly evident that at very distant day we shall ail go flying- through the air on work r pleasure bent as If the birds had ' toever enjoyed a monopoly. "Ther Is no question." well aaya The Torkvllle, 8. c Enquirer, -of the fact that Mr. W. E. Gonzales, more than any other one man, or half a dosen men, for that matter, was responsible for the action of the State convention in instructing dele gate to Denver to vote for BryanJ first, last and all the time, and un der the clrcumstanees, Mr Gonzales waa fairly entitled to be named as en of the delegates-at-large. - But such Ja politic.- Politic Is certain ly queer proposition especially In f vjtS Carolina. ---.,;.,'. , Sir: The furious criticism over the re cent dinner given br the Cosmopolitan Club tempt me te indulge in a bit of rcicvani reminiscence. A few years ago President Roosevelt entertained Dr. Booker T, Washington at luncheon in the White House. The oom- motlon eaused by this function, partic ularly in the Southern states, will be re called, niext day. J think It was. I re ceived word from Dr. Washington that he wouia be in New Tork for the week end. Whereupon I telecraDhed him to take luncheon with me on Sundsy at the Manhattan HoteL where I was living at me time. He accepted. ' I Invited several friends to meet him. Including one or two from Wall Street. and the late Judge Bond, formerly presi dent of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, a man of wealth, culture, and wide political and business experience In the South, ss well as North and West Not one Invitation waa declined. We sat down to luncheon ahont 1 :30 o'clock, st a table centrally located. The dining-room was crowded, for the moat part with representative citizens and their families, bank presidents, railroad managers, merchants, manuraeiurers. men of sffairs generally, and identified with the big undertakings of the Indus- rim world. Kir "oft-hT?adcd vtefanarlea'' en the raee question had been invited; I saw none present, anil yet we naa oniy iiKmuim when our table became the centre to which came, from time to time, almost every guest aa Ltr. wasningion a pres ence gradually became known. This con tlnued more than two hours. It waa near- lv ft n'elorlr when ws adiourned. A week later I saiiea zor uinuon. u my arrival there came a letter from the doctor saying that. In future, he should reter to it ss his "Fifty Thousand Dollar Luncheon, because that was the amount hlch he received for Tusxegee as mr r.xnlf of t. since then, when In New Tone, ne nas made the Manhattan Hotel his headquar ters. I Inquired the otner aay now mucn friction his presence had caused during the veers that he has put up there, and wsa Informed by the vetersn msnager that It waa too slight to be worth men tlonlng; one silly, unheeded remonstrance and sn anonymous letter or two, as m- isnlflcant as the protects against mm in ih. pimimt rnfe taut month So you see, while there la nystena, mere in still common senae on this subject, and the Americsn people have not yet decided leaat. unanimously, to go dsck into h.rharlKm My experience In entertaining ut. iju- Rois. of the Atlanta iniversny. is suo t.ntlnllv the same. I.Ike Dr. Washing' ton. and our brilliant Chinese friend, Pmfnanr Chentao. of Pekln. he Is cor Hiiilv welcomed to the tames or our dcsi Itlzens. Nevertheless, this graduate or Harvard and He delber-. this scnoiar. thinker, snd prose poet, this leading Sociological authority of the age. is com pelled to ride In a "Jim Crow" passenger enarh whenever he comes here from At isnta, or pay $1 for a drawing-room on a Pullman car. Such outrageous. un-American crraciim that beatowed upon Miss uvina-ion, h,.n whom there Is no more unseinsn. evoted worker for human netterment in v.w vnrv ritv: of such nign-minaeo ex ponents of progress snd enlightenment as r. Holt, snd the otner isaies ana en- imen who d ned wltn tneir coioreo (Hernia the other night. Is interesting hlefty in that It illustrate now tenaclnnalv eur advancing civilisation atlll cllnas. here snd there, to the un speakable conditions of tbe past, when men snd women were socially ostracised on account of race, creed, color, snd oth er conditions for . which they were not responsible. rerhapa. however, It Is s good thing for ua to have a whlfT from the Middle Ages occasionally. It may remind us that slavery Is not, after all. so far removed from our sdvsnclng civilisation. It cer tainly dnea not seem to be when a col lege profeaaor can stand up In Cooper t'nion before sn audience or American citizens snd forbid them to criticise .one of their own number who hsppens to be In public office, or when American citi zens ennnot Invite whom they choose to dinner without Incurring such scurrilous abuse and misrepresentation ss has dls ernced the name of American' lonrnal lm even In this Melcanlsed renubllc. JOHN E. MILIIOI.LAND. New Tork, May 11. These are views, we have no aort GOSSIP OF THE C0EEID0ES of doubt, expressed with perfect hon esty, and they prove the aoundness of our contention above that the dif ference between the North and South with reference to the relatione of the races Is fundamental Thus we see this writer speaking of "hysteria" of course the South'a expression aa opposed to the "common sense" of the North, and we are told that the utterance of a protest against social equality Is "a whiff from the Mid dle Ages." We fear that there ara seeds of trouble In the well-intended but highly foolish writing of Mr. Mil holland. It would not be alarming If his view were an Isolated one. but he speaks for the class to which he evidently belonsv the cultured, the wealth, the Influence of his section. Through a mistake such as will occasionally occur In the best-regulated newspaper offices The Lenoir News has mis-credited an editorial article headed "The Confederate 8ol dier"' to The Observer. As our con temporary has doubtless noticed ere this, the cloning sentence of the piece shows clearly that it came from some Republican newspaper and waa written In criticism of the Demo cratic party of North Carolina as "our political anUgonista." Lest any one whomsoever should be placed under a misapprehension by the er ror we shall ask The Newa for the benefit ht a correction. All the States chronically envlou of North Carolina may take notice that Rev. Dr. Walter W. Moore, of Union Theological Seminary, ' of whom North Carolina and Mecklon burg county in particular have long been proud a North -. Carolinian, born and bred la tbe moderator of the Southern Presbyterian . Oeneral Assembly now In session at Greens boro. " . : .' " -. '.. .. i "There seems to be no longer' doubt a to the eucreas of tbe flying machine. Wilbur and Orvllle Wright, the Noftk Carolina brothers," etc, etc-Oreenvtbe. 8. C News. Thanks, awfully. They really ought to be. . " . The Morally Stunted have had but two Innings In Charlotte but It-will hardly b denied that th!r argument waa presented with , ability by Mr. Settle and Mr. Sett. ' . ' V '(. , ; "Charlotte la a city In fact aa well a In namq for It ha gotten to that point where It can furnish big crowds for as many aa a nair-aoaen aurac Uona Int one , evening." declared a prominent cotton mill man who spent several daya la the city, last week. "I spent Tuesday here and having noth ing else to do strolled out to look at the new atfeet. J walked, up on the; square and while standing . there a great .crowd came by. . I was curiou to know where such a throng had been and what they toad been doing. and so I made inquiry- I waa told tna,t the ' commencement exercise or we city graded achoola were .juat over in the new Auditorium. A tew mlnutea after tbla I noticed that the care com ing in from Elisabeth College were crowded with people, all of wnom were well dressed and aeemlngly In the best of spirits. Some one standing near volunteered the Information that Elisabeth College commencement was- ' on and that the ' at tendance had been unprecedented ly large. Having nothing else to do I dropped Into several of the mov ing picture parlors, hoping thereby to pass a few minute pleasantly. - I was surprised to find all of them well fill ed. The Academy was ' likewise crowded. Throng wer moving about from place to place and the street were alive with people. I wa ur- prlsed. It wa only Tuesday and yet there waa just that hustle and puna which on expects to una on Satur days. Returning to tho hotel, I found the lobby of the Selwyn peopled With strangers, all of whom were wearing red badge. They were member of the Southern Newspaper - Publisher" Association and had lust had a meet ing. To say that I waa amased out faintly expresses my feelings. I ex torted to find a thriving city but not such a progressive one. The blaxing shop windows, the moving throngs, th h afipy iCes,"an Told" story or peace. prosperity and plenty. Should any one desire to Inquire a to whether or not Charlotte ha cast off her waa dling clothes. Just send them tome. My visit was an eye-opener. HAS NOT ABUSED' KITCHIN MR. CRAIG MAKES A STATEMENT A company of gentlemen wer smoking their cigars In the lobby of the Selwyn after lunch yesterday. Th conversation gravitated tor the recent prohibition campaign and the deter mined effort put forth by the clergy and .politicians to "dry- ttne ntate. Much speculation wa Indulged In a to the outcome of Tuesday election. It being agreed that the "bill" would carry by approximately IS, 000 ma jority. "Indeed are w com Upon strange times," remarked one of the party, "for to-day we see something that has never happened before In th an nals of the Btate we ee the politl clana, not a few but practically all of thjem, standing shoulder to shoulder with the clergy, and working Ilk mad to force prohibition upon the State, and mystery of mysteries, w see the campaign prosecuted, not from the stump, but from the pulpit. "I recall vividly my boyhood day when for a man to talk politic on Sunday waa regarded as sinful and for one to have the audacity to discuss it from the pulpit was considered aa nothing short of sacrilegious. In fact I believe that If a man had gotten up in the old home church and under took to talk on anything other than waa conceived to be In harmony with the day that he would have been ush ered out of the house and off the ground in no unceremonious fashion. Th church was looked upon as the House of God and the member would not have tolerated such a thing no church would In those day. Sunday wa a day of rest, one set apart for th worship of the Master and not to be violated under any pretext or In anyway whatsoever. This observance was carried out In all detail. There waa no cooking on the Sabbath, no one about the place waa allowed to work. not even the stock, and th Bible was the only book, aside from Bunyan'a "Pilgrlm'e Progreas," "Line Upon Line" and "Precept Upon Precept," that could be read. None of the boy were permitted to engage even in the mildest of sports. It was a day that differed from all other one that wa peculiarly sacred. "But the times have changed. It Is now allowable to talk on almost any subject Just so It may be construed a having a moral side and do most any thing Just so It amacka of the Sab bath on the Lord s Day and nothing la said about It. It Is the proper thing to have all sorts of musical lnstru. ments and sing almost all sorts of songs in church. "How the mighty have fallen! "With the change of the times, nub ile sentiment has changed and th church, from being an Institution set apart, gilded and directed by an om niscient, omnipotent and omnipresent Mr. Kitchin Ha Wanted Mr. Craig , to Abae Him, Rat He Ha Not v and Will Not Mr. Kitrhln and III Manager Criticise Mr. Craig rxr Tbing He Never Said and Deny Statement . Never Made -: Brother Claude Spoke) to Mr. W T. Lee In Senate Chamber About Helping Mr. - Craig J'onr ' Year Hence Other Passages : In Mr. Kltcbln' Charlotte Speech Re- ' plied To. , i , .;-;.;.-. To the, Editor oif The Observer: ; ? - I hav Just read In The Charlotte Observer the report of the speech Charlotte on May 20th. He says, ac cording to the report, that I hav abused : . him. This la not true, nave never abused him and never Intend to ,do so. No man that ha heard, my speeches cantruthfuUy aay that I have. I think that Mr, Kitchln want me to abuse him and I have carefully refrained , from doing so. The abuse that he refers to is my statement to the effect that he announced hi candidacy for Governor before he had entered Tip on the term of the office, the salary of which ne I now. drawing and the dntle of which he 1 not die charging. This was a sirnpU state ment of - fact without comment and Mr. Kitchln cannot deny the truth ef it To pair with a Republican Is certainly not ruiniung tne oonga tions of - th office that Mr. ' Kitchln now hoWs and. I .do not think that he will contend, that it la. This simple statement of a fact, which Is known to all men, without comment and without criticism cannot be. con strued Into abuse. There is another statement In this speech by Mr. Kitchln that miarepre sents me. It Is aa follows: "And when It (th newspaper to whlch h referred) state that Mr. Craig says that-t-conBented"V;e - stand by him four years from now If he would only give me the rlght-of way thl time, that la also untrue and th Hon. Locke Craig will not stand up and say that to m to my face. 2 said to a friend of his that If four year from now th West asked for his nomination. I did not think he would be objectionable to the east." I have never said that Mr. Kitchln consented to stand by me four years from now If I only would give him the right-of-way this time. However, what he admit telling my friend amounta to , very near the aame thing, I did aay that Mr. Kitcnin said that he thought the party ought to honor me and that he would like to sea this honor con ferred upon me but that I should have waited four year from now to stand for this nomination, and that while I was considering the question of running for the nomlna tion, messages came to me to the effect that If I would wait four year Mr. Kitchln and his friend would help me and that I could get 'the nomination unanimously. The conversation between me and Mr. Kitchln to which I referred was In th lobby of the Tarborough House at the time of the meeting Of the executive committee at which Senator Simmons resigned the. chair manshlp; It was not private, others were around us and passing. I re member distinctly that among" other things Mr. Kitchln said, "You are too good a man to be beaten but not good enough to beat me.'! He aurely win not deny this expression, whether he is before my face or be hind my back. . Th message that I alluded to were brought to me by Hon. Charles A, Webb, of Asheville; Hon. W. T. Lee. of Wavnc-evllle Hnn T. If Bourne, of Asheville,' and perhapa by otners. in gentlemen named are known to' be my personal friends. I happened to meet Mr. Lee In Golds boro late last night and he. gave m tne following statement: . "May list 108 "This Is to certify that 'during the session of the Legislature of J07 I had a conversation Uh the , Hon. Claude Kitchln in th right hand lobby of th Senate chamber. At the time of this conversation with me Hon. Locke Craig had not an nounced hi candidacy for Governor, while It wa generally known that he had the matter under considera tion. Mr. Kitchln said to me In sub stance . a follows: If Mr. Craig would not be a candidate this tlms and let Will have It without a con test that four years hence . they would help him get the nomination; that he (Mr. Craig) could afford to wait. I told Mr. Craig f this con versation. "W, T. LEE." The messages brought me by Mr. Webb and Mr. Bourne were of the same general purport. Mr. Webb stated In addition that either Mr. Claude Kitchln or Mr. W. W. Kitchln had said to him that four years from now I could get the nomination by God. has become, in a majority of acclamation If I .would only wait cases, a man-directed Institution which While I had this matter under con- recognise His fatherhood only at a slderatlon Mr. Claud Kitchln wrote distance. Formerly people did things me a letter and asked for an Inter- or did not do things because they feared the wholesome public entlment which then prevailed. To make up for the loss of thl wholesome public sentiment It 1 now In order to enact stringent laws, in other words. It la proper to legislate morals upon a peo ple whether they agree or not. "I saw a banner In Asheville dur ing th local prohibition campaign which bore th words, 'What could Jesus Dor' I don't care to comment on it; it would be counter to my ideas of the proprieties but that question rankled In my mind for days and I haven't forgotten it yet What would He have done had He walked into one of the city churchea this morning and heard one of the sermons on this great tneme or prohibition? indeed are we com on ' strange times. The lion and th lamb hav lain down together and who can tell what the result wlUbeT" Prof. Alexander Graham, superin tendent of the city graded schools, is diligent student of human nature and a close observer of men and events. HI pet hobby 1 th study of the mental processes of children and th effect of environment, association. nereaity and tne like on th develop ment of th Juvenile mind. A keen ens of humor, added to his long ex perience In th school room, ha made htm a matter of this peculiar subject ana ne is a iascmaung conversational. 1st when his interest is once aroused. While th schools are in progress th day seldom passes but that he notes some peculiarity which affords him much amusement The appearance a few years ago of several dago children In th school gave him an opportunity for research along new line. ' Th black-eyed, dark-haired, dusky children 'from across th water , displayed amaalng aptitude for book and advanced rap Idly. As might hav been expected. however, their progress was not alto gether easy for very soon they met with ' those English word, construc tions, Idiom and the like, th raison d'etre of which has never been ex plained. These stumbling blocks in th narrow and thorny path afforded their preceptor no end of worry and amusement and Prof. Graham, many atone. Recently several ef these children wer reciting a lesson In English gram- view with me. I announced my candidacy and the Interview waa not mentioned again. Mr. Kitchln and hi manager criti cise me for saying things that I never said and vehemently deny, statements that I never made. I have never said that Mr. Manning wa the attorney for the American Tobacco Company, but I aid say thai he bitterly opposed Section "AT of the Reld bill In the last Legislature and that he I the vice president of a bank of which Mr. Duke is presi dent and X did say 'that It wa re markable to me that Mr. Manning, who so (Strenuously stood by the American Tobacco Company In the General Assembly of 107, should In 100S so strenuously advocate the nomination of Mr. Kitchln on th ground of his hostility to this same American Tobacco Company. What would Mr. Kitchln and . his friends have said If my manager were the vice president of Mr. Duke's bank and had opposed Section "A" of the Reld bill a Mr. Manning did? Th speech to which Mr, Kitchln alludes wa made by me In Charlotte a month ago. He ha met me on sev eral occasion since then and Judg ing from the tone of hi remark In Charlotte I am - - surprised that he did not take advantage of the first opportunity and . have an explana tion face to face. - Mr.- Kitchln seems to think that h has th right to Impugn the motives of his opponents, and Insultingly accuse them of abuse behind hi back without the slightest mar. It o happened that Prof. Gra ham slipped In as th cle wa mak ing ready to pars a number of sen tences. Th first of the transplanted young Americans read his sentence thus; '- " ' 'He waa convicted of progeny and ought to have been hung." Profeasor Graham chuckled and the boys teach r,. whll both mortified and embai rassed, could not help but smile. - A second youth a few moments lat er eclipsed the feat of his companion by reading thus: "He fell over a recipe and broke his neck." . ... Thl 1 almost equal to th startling declaration made a few years ago by one of the pupil of th city schools who quoted the immortal f hakes pear aa having declared that "Deception Is ta better part of valor." . foundation and call people assassins. When I make a plain statement of a fact which he does not deny he cries out that he la abused. It seems , to me that every Intelll gent man In North Carolina has come to the conclusion that Mr. Kitchln ha not been abused half a much as he wants to be.- He. end his friend have been theunen In this campaign to abuse people that op pose them and - th character of no man In the state is above their at tack. From reading his speech X think; that every, one eee that a Joint - apeaking by me and - Mr. Kitchln would be no discussion of any principle but a war of personal bitterness that - he and : hie friends seem determined to wag against roe and all who oppose him. I wllL state again, a I have often done, that I hav never said anything In-derogation of Mr. Kitchln'-party service. . He has rendered ' valuable service to the party and has been most generously recognised. ' - ; . LOCKE CRAJG, WHson.;May 21. .,.,. -:-.. I.YJTSTICK DONE ROCK No Friction Between the Citizens and the Wlnthrop College Authorities "Tng of -Wer" Between Wlnthrop ' and One or Two Trustee of School .Talk of Negro Jnsane Asylum All twna. -t-v ..' i . Te th Editor of Th Observer: - la Saturday Observer your Colum bia correspondent deals with th "tug of war" between Wlnthrop College aa- thorlUe and the graded school board of trustee (not th cltlzeas at Urge) Th letter that th Senator la. th author of. and that Is o full of "fire of brimstone," is two month .old, and ha long bea forgotten. A for th tug of war," none exists between th cltlsen of Rock Hill- and : Wlnthrop College. Ther ha never, at any time, been any friction between our : cltl sen and thl Institution or it presl- l den W-aad if 4hi matter- of aelllng the high, school property to Wlntnrop at a fair price wa left to the voter It would receive 9 per cent of th qual ified vote. . There is Injustice done our cltlaaha and even member of the graded school board of trustee in having the outside world believe that the Wlnthrop Normal and Industrial -College la not a welcome Institution, and that w are fighting Its beat Interests. This la not a fight of th citizens, but of th graded - school trustees, who purchased this property for the pur pose oi giving tne, young men who were not able to' attend a higher in stitution a thorough business ednca tlon. enabling them to enter life' walk at a moderate coat W believ th graded school trustee acted for what they thought wa the beat Interests for higher male advancement in thl mat ter, although It ha been shown that It wa not a paying Institution from a financial standpoint When President Johnson mad hi offer to the board to take thl property over at the pur chase price ($11,000) paid by th high school board, and continue this insti tution in connection with Wlnthrop, promising to give the people batter high school facllitle than they are now receiving and at a cheaper cost, he did it. as ha, thought, for th best Interests of the people. With the ex ception of one or two, the board con sidered President Johnson's proposi tion favorably, and th facts are th main "tug of .war" has been between Wlnthrop and these on or two trus tee and not th cltlsen of Rock HUI In a body, as pevlous correspondence by our bureau would have the Im pression go abroad.' At no distant day this matter will be agreeably settled, and we believe Wln tnrop win get this property. A for th removal of Wlnthrop College to a more congenial and appreciative city" we hardly think this possible. Th Idea of the establishment in its stead of a .negro Insane asylum, by th Senator from the State of palms, is all bosh. Just think of th transform-! ation, will youT We shudder at th comparison, and would not like to have such a brain-storm aa the 8en ator had when he wrote that "fir and brimstone" letter. Rock Hill citizens are for Wlnthrop first and last and the '.'tug of war" la another brain-storm, which had It formation In the fertile brain of a cor respondent who waa after a story. . Roclr Hill not lntln -I..- over this matter, and ther Is no "tug of war" going on here. S. H. WHITE, Correspondent d tiff's0 y. V - AaAAAAAAA MMtjM 4 1 t Blue m S pa m II 4. FKmansn QJO.O to an ' . . 10 - LAST WEEK OF CONGRESS. Adjournment To-Morrow or Wednes day, It Is Thought Nothing Except lumune worn ua Been. Done Bryan I Not Yet Nominated. Observer Bureau, Congress Hall Hotel, - . Washington, May- 24. Thl I th last week of Congress. The session will close Tuesday or Wed nesday. Barring routine business nothing has .been accomplished. The employera' liability act a sop to or ganlsed labor, 1 considered uncon stitutional. The currency bill after being hacked about was killed. Can non 1 master of th situation. Th President wrote message and threat but th man from Danville, III, held th rein. - . Everybody is interested In the Re publican and .Democratic campaigns. Taft lead In the Republican contest, but there are some wis politicians who believe that be win not win. He look like a winner now. Democrats, among them . three-fourth of the Democratic Senator and many of th Representatives in Congress, who do not believe that It would be wia to nominate Col. William J. Bryan this year, are rejoicing over the result of the Florida primaries in which avowed Bryan candidate were defeated. They think that the tide la turning. Th South holda the key to the situation and th cordial weloome given Gov ernor Johnson, Bryan s moat promis ing rival, and hla candidacy are cited aa an indication of th Chang of sen timent - ... Bryan Is not nominated. Of a total of 870 delegates already elected Mr. Bryan has 410 and 10. Instructed and unlnstructed, are opposed to him. Of those yet to he elected III. it Is said, will go to, Denver unlnstructed. At most the Nebraskan would hav but If, when it take 1(8 to nomi nate. The next three weeks will aet tle the question. - Jarjaa la preparing to give a great in ternatlon al ex position Is 1111 and through the efforts of Congressman Rodenbury. of Illinois, Congress has ppropriated $1,(00.000 so that th nlted State can participate in a De cerning way. Thl will be tbe first really great representative exposition ef Aelatio civilisation ever given. Eu ropean countries are expected to in ataii exhibits, but thl country is first to plan such an outlay of money. In an editorial concerning th Japanes show The Washington Post of recent data said; "Th value of the exposi tion to the United States will be more In showing than being shown. It Js hardly likely that American travel to Japan win be greatly increased by the exposition, but there Is ne doubt that a carefully prepared and well-placed exhibit of American products win da much to Increase oriental knowledge of the United States and thu promote Intercourse and commerce. tVe have yet to show a larger, more ;: complete ;or ; better tailored hue of Blue Serges or Black Un finished' Worsteds. The fit is fine, looks like made-! , to-measure garments. We can fit , you, no matter, if slim, stout or regular; either double or ; single . i breasted. .A swell line 'neat or fancy - Worsteds;; ; .Ught, medium or dark . colors . . $12.50 to $25.00 . Odd ' Coats' and "Pants t;--' - aZ;-y ZCf Neat Gray Skeleton ; Coats for hot weather. : Only ? Fine Blue Serge or ? Black Skeleton Odd Coats ' v . .-. .K..., ...... .. .V.-... ;. ... ; ;$70; Odd Pants, light or dark, full peg top or regular - ; cut Special lines, . . .;' .'. . . .v. . . .$3.50 and $5.00 Fancy Vests ' ;';v7,7.; :;:; ;, ; ; v?.:-; 'J 'J- ,A real swell line in Wash or the Mercerized and V Silk fabrics. V; , , V . .Vi; ;. .$1.50 to $5.00;- Bays' Suits and Pants ' v;" '-'"OV- Blue Serges, neat or fancy - Worsteds; best -makes, ages 3 to 17 years. .v.. . . - V. . ..,$20 to $8.50 : ; ;, Wool Pants, Plain. . ... -. . . .. it;. 50c. to $1.50,; ; Knickerbockers, Blue Serges or Worsteds ?1 ; j .-.:..' .;..' "..,.. i $1,00 to $1.50 , Plain .Wash Pants, Colors and Crash, 3 to 15 years 1 Knickerbockers in Wash. :.. .... . .50c. Scrivens Underwear V :.r Zi'ZV'' ' " J- Jeans Drawers, improved patent . . . ... . $1.25, Knee Drawers, very thin. ........ .... . ....75c. Athletic Nainsook-Shirts. ...;..., . . . . . . . ...50c. "Emery" SWrts' t l:v,K : ' V:; Negligee, neat pin stripes, checks and figures ; Cot-; . ton fabrics . . . . ...$1.00 to $1.50 - Silk and Mercerized, 1 attached or . detached soft collars and without collars; dead swell styles ' '" ' : '.' . r . . .. . , ; .$1.50 to $3.00 t Belts' and Neckwear - i-U? ::'Z Z''Z : A swell line Men's and Boys', Belts-rGrays, Tans :; and " Blacks . . . . . . .... . , ; . . . . , i- ..25c. to $1.50 Swell line Four-in-Hands, Clubs, Bat Wing and ' ' Windsor Ties.,.. .. ..v.. ..... ...... 25 and 50c v Men's Oxfords :r 'American Gentleman',' . . ... . . : . . . .'. ...$4.00 : Patent. Vici Dlucher 'Oxford, style 0. K. i v. , $2.89 VA" beauty in a Tan Oxford. ."' i V . V $ . V .'.$1150 " : - And in a finer Patent, -Vici or Tan at ' . ...,,.. t- ... ..... '. -. ,,.; -.$5.00 and $6.00 a Women's Pumps and Oxfords';.- - ;tt-:'"': '' . The VSorosis" outwears all Tan, . Mat Kid : or r - patent Pumps, Ribbon Ties, Button or Bal High- . ') Cuts. . . . . v ? .... V vV . . V.V . .$3.50 and $4.00 Our Artistic in Pumps, Ribbon Ties or Oxfords .'.'.'.''' t ..,... i . ... . $3.00 , Special Odd Lot, but good" style Oxfords : and . Shoes, i ,''...... .r $2.19 Barefoot tSandals . , ZZ ':,'' :; C- Z-'Zl'-!'' - Z- -.. A good quality Tan for Men, Women and; Chil dren .' . . . i. . '.'..'.. '. -. 85c. to $1.75 ' Suit Cases and' Grips '&'::Z A swell line new stuff just in. Suit Cases .5 -7: - ..v.- ..w. . ... . . . . . . ... ..510 to $15.00 Grips..:. .... ... ... ';.,$1.00 to $120 c. r- Genuine Leather Suit XBases. . . .$5.00, $70, $8D Deep, heavy Leather wide strap Suit Cases.. $80 fllllMMH ft. - - -
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 25, 1908, edition 1
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