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Press Comment. A SICKENING SPECTACLE. Tho Hon. Cecil Lyons, ttr; Texan tnemher of the republican national committee,1 reached Washington the : other, lay In a high state of perturba tion, .and- has scarcely yet resumed a wonted, composure. Mr. Lyons has heard that periodical story of how southern representation In the 1 con vention Is to be reduced, and he gave i "YV . ..... ! mA I ftt is the greatest of the five senses. It is the I 111 II M maiustay of eergr- The unfuiling source lUUvll 0f the perpetually impecunious. A touch U;avii wins the football garni'. The touching novel becomes out of the six best sellers. One touch of nature makes, the whole worhl "kin. His hand touching hers before mar riage causes an electric thrill to pass thr.ough them 'twain;' iiiul tho hand touching the bottom of his purse after mar-riagtw-auses a short circuit and a burned out fuse. . Every key on a first-class typewriter is susceptible of tho Vlightot touch. .The cushion-like tips of the human fingers touching the keys produces the highest excellence in the type- ;W!we TIIE AIX-FlNCEntsCIENCE-TOUCII METII 01)' U enables the pupil to attain the '.ugliest speeJ and the Vn-ntest degrre of accuracy. Our WINTER TERM begins the first of January, 1912. AS1IEVILLE BUSINESS COL LEGE, Henry S. Shockley, Principal. XJ Sata HEADQUARTERS You will fiml here a wido range of selections ' for your Christmas gifts. Clothing for everybody. Ilatshoes, House Slip per, Sweaters, Scarfs, Furs, Muffs, Oonks, Col lars and Ties. Toys of all kinds.. Express wngons, I kill Trunks, Cup Pistols, etc. Bring the little ones. Geo. W. Jenkins it rhri9 12"). 23 S. Ilain. us this line on the Lyons platform "Personally, J am going; to insist that the candidate for president Who gets our votes shall come out against the Uourne proposition to cut down our representation.' There will be no fed eral officeholders in the convention from Texas, it I can prevent it." More over, there are some indications that Mr. Lyons will find it possible to pre vent It. Subsequent developments in Washington., since the committee has been In. session, indicate that, where as only the faithful will be placed on guard-by .the administration forces. tho officeholders will be shoved Incon tinently Into the background. And so, The Associated Press adds, this will be done out of deference for the views of. the president Our whilom Texas friend, while generally amusing, is wholly deficient In. a sense of humor. He, along with other members from the south, who bared their breast for a fight against the. proposal, to have their represen ration curtailed, really began to holler before they were hit, -and. Instead of going to Washington with a view to making a dignified fight for the reten tion of the present representation, de fending such representation as an in herent right, they began to trim and compromise, as thought hoping to put off an evil day which they know will one day overtake them. . Lyons had hardly reached his hotel before he be gan to tell the reporters . ho w they ex pected to eliminate the federal office holders from the convention, .hoping thereby to . propitiate' those northern republicans who find .prevent ..condi tlons So. frankly distasteful.'1 There. fore, ' under this Lyons,:' or soiithern program, all those southern' republi cans, who - have ' secured -recognition from Washington through signal par. ty service, will bo Invited, in terms that cannot be misunderstood to ef face themselves. Under this Lyons-Taft program, the Hatus of those republicans who have ieen fortunate, or unfortunate, enough o acquire a federal position, has been ery definitely and permanently fined, n the northern republican philosophy, cqulesced In by Lyons, no republican loulh of a certain imaginary line. "expectable, while those who hold ffle Infinitely lower Id the Inhu nan scale have now Ixm-h placed leilnltely outside the pale. ' Should wy of them shove In where they are not wanted, the convention floor man lgers, with the power and majesty of he administration behind them, will not.Jiesltata to put them In their places, where they will be expected to speak only when they are spoken to. The main body of the delegates, whites and negroes from the north, 111, of course, occupy seats In the main auditorium, but federal office holding persona will doubtless be pro vided with seats over on the left hand tide, away back. This segregation la wholly necessary. If the floor mana gers are going to Impart to the pro ceedings an unalloyed air of respecta bility. Not even the Hlnky-Dmk Mc Kennas, the Rath House. Johns, 'the political yeggmen from New York and Philadelphia, will be so low aa to do them reverent. Meanwhile, however, this politically leprous claas will have no doubt what is expected of Jt. While southern officeholders will not be per mitted to harbor a hope of associat ing with gentlemen, at the national convention themselves, their duty .Is none the less plain: they are expected to contribute of their time, and money to round up delegates to Vote to sus tain the administration, just as they might vote were the terms of their ex. communication less definite. The why fores of this arrangement are as manifest as Is the duty of the officeholders; the situation must be rendered pleasant and agreeable for the administration. The officeholder, yielding to a gentle, but omnipresent civil service Influence, must, as we have hitherto remarked, sea to It that the delegates are properly rounded up, but Mr. Taft! while profiting by the arrangement, must be in pneltloi to show to the north how a perennial smile' has been withdrawn, long enough to frown upon the activity of federal officeholders In the south. One wonders how long the collec tive stomach of the more than one hundred thousands republicans In North Carolina will be able to sup port this periodical recurrence of s spectacle that la nothing If not sick ening. Greensboro News. ii ..ii '' . uich Mr. Taft Oil for! Una i iljin.il injunction a a miligal-l Ing I'lrcunniiince whtm their distln- Kulahed visiiur, after asking, pardon for a seeming ungraciousness, appear ed wholly insensible to the gains to which his party In this state felt It could point with the customary pride, and later, when the president, the ben eficiary of such gains he was given Khree members of the house-i-con- unuea ine cntuiiening ana scourging process, and seemed wholly innocent, meanwhile, Of a sense of gratitude. There were those, we say, even among active republicans, who endeavored to persuade themselves that Mr. Taft meant well If he elected to administer castor oil, where a milder specific might have been in order. It was ob served, htfWeve, that thl ' drastic mode of treatment was only employed j In the south, no matter if a similar malady prevailed In other sections. , - But enough of these strident sen tences. We knowthe precise reason that actuated Mr. Taft, if he seemed to step upon the faces of his southern republican friends, and we have that reason assigned In the president's own words. Feeling himslf under a gen eral fire the president recently gave a formal interview to the Outlook,- a weekly Journal of which Colonel Roos evelt la a contributing editor. Mr. Taft said. If It was to do over again, he would put the case somewhat dif ferently In his Winona speech, entered a blanket plea of guilt to an assort ment of Infirmities and shortcomings, but in one particular he stood by him self In a way that must have brought cheer to those friends who had begun to fear that Mr. Taft did not approve of the present administration any more than does the rest of the coun try, t We have reference to Mr. Taft s de fence of himself In appointing demo crats to office. Francis E. Leupp, the Chosen Instrument of this authorised Interview, observed: "You have been criticised, Mr. President, for bringing two democrats Into a republican cab inet," to whlch the president replied: And I plead guilty to one. You must remember that I was elected by demo. cratlc votes, probably polling almost as many as McKlnley did In 1 89(5. Let's see: I carried Greater Ncsw Fork; came within 150 votes of carrying Boston; carried Missouri, including a 1S.000 plurality In St. Louis, and car ried one elector1 In Maryland, three congressional districts in North Caro lina, and mora than a third of the counties of Georgia. Of this Inst feat I am especially proud, because my highest political ambition has boen. and still Is, to take the sting out of the relations between th north and south. I have no Quixotic Idea of be ing able to break up the solid south myself, but am trying to lay In that section a strong foundation on which our party can build so that another decade may perhaps witness a change. In appointing Dickinson, the finest type of southern democrat, I aimed to honor the south; but I suspect that some of his party friends made him feel uneasy In what they affected to regard as a false position politically, However, my selection ef Lurton and Lamar for the Supreme bench, and my liLult UlrlLi) Lodge Joint Resolution Adopt ed by Unanimous 'O - Vote. ; The sen , vote last President Washington, Dee. 20. ate by a unanimous night formally . ratified Taft's notification to Russia, 6f the termination of the treaty of 1833. The Ivodge joint resolution reported by the foreign relations committee as a substitute for the Sulzer resolution that passed the house S00 to 1 was adopted after an all day debate over Russia's discrimination against the Jews of America. The resolution was adopted at t:15 p. m. It was Introduced for the com mittee by Senator Lodge, of Massachu setts, as the measure couched in the langunge most satisfactory to : the Washington administration was sought to avoid giving offense to the 81. Petersburg government. . ' . The final action came after two sub-, stltutes had been voted down. It was the climax of a notable proceeding in the chamber which guards Jealousy its traditional' powers to make and break treaties. All through the symposium of views to which many senators con tributed throughout the day, however. there were citations of historical in stances of treaty terminations by exec utive act. The senate was held in session until a late hour on the urgent plea of Senator Lodge that to secure action before the Christmas holiday on Thursday It was necessary that the senate should act at once. Every senator who spoke Voiced his advocacy of congressional action to meet . the Russian discrimination. They- were unanimous for the termination of the treaty but showed a wide divergence of views as to the manner In which that end should be accomplished. The most conspicuous opposition to the senate resolution developed when Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, of. fered as a substitute a resolution elim inating the question of race aa a cause for discrimination and omitting the charge that Russia had violated the terms of the treaty, - The Hitchcock substitute, however, is along the lines of the house resolu tion. Those who voted In the affirma tive on the' Hitchcock substitute were Senator Chilton. Culberson. Hitchcock Johnson, Kern, Lea, Martlne, Myers, O'Gorman, Raynor, Smith of Mary land, Taylor, Watson and Williams, democrats, and Senators Clapp and Polndexter, republicans. Senator Newlands offered a substi tute dovetailing the Hitchcock a.nd i ixiage resolutions but this was voted down without (II vision. Then came the final vote on the Lodge resolution. TTi m roll wall mA hn th.r. waa no promotion of White to the chief Ju-. ; division. Peventv-two votes were cast ticeshlp I rejoiced to make because I, nnJ of them ww, favorable to the was giving great strength to the court ,mm.jr(i It wu, therefore declared and at the same time showing to the south that under a republican admin istration Its, eminent men .were not denied a part rn the highest offt.'es and functions of government" - The Hon. Francis E. Leupp, In this Intimate, authorised Interview with Mr. Taft. has rendered to the southern republicans, at least, a notable service, and he has likewise rendered a hither to opaque situation translucently clear. Mr. Taft la not, aa some mem bers of his' party In this section huve been pained to feel, wholly lacking In a sense of gratitude. Contra ryw se. he feels that the democrats elected him and, feeling that way about 'It there was nothing for him to do but to confer upon hta democratic friends the honors and. 'emoluments of ap pointive office Democrat as a whole might offer the captious criticism that they had little relish for this proselyt Ing campaign, with its candidly avow. ed object of "breaking up the solid south." and then the generality of re publicans might disclose some sup.r seDsltlveness when, after pulling the plough, the fodder warn spread before democrats, but manifestly the only- course open tor the president was to reward 'his friends, allowing the re publican and democratic heathen to rage as much as they were a mind to. The president felt Impelled to give- on! cee to democrats, not , alone be cause he believes ha was elected by democratic votesi but frankly wished to create a situation whereby his dem ocratlc friends In the south would not be denied '.'a part In the highest offices and functions, of government" The republican party In North) Carolina favored Mr, Taft with three members of the hous., who may have fancied. ror a WMle, that they would be per. milled to participate In the "functions or government" hereupon the presi dent wishing to show, as he aays, that he waa not unappreclatlve. set about at once to appoint democrats to office, sometime of his own motion, at other time at the Instance of democratic members of congress. Being always minarul of his logic, there would have been but one course open to Mr. Taft had th republicans iof this state elects ed more than three member of con gress HI sense of gratitude to dem ocrats. Increasing In exact ratio to re publican gains, th election of. say a half dosen members 16 congress by that party from this state, would have Insured the Instant decapitation nf every republican holding a federal omc. and Messrs, Simmon and Over man would have been invited to pre via material to fill their place. Mr. lart lacking in a sen of gratl- rtet Smother the IitidIoii. thousht! reensboro News. tu BEN'fiE OF GRATITUDE. " When President Tsft came to North Carolina In July, llOU, and favored u dlKtreswd republican audience with n uppralNil of their party and later designated a large number of demo crats Li nil positions of public trust In which he could not bring himwlf to smlsn to members of his own party Ii v rranon of their Intellectual and moral unfitness; and gnneral unwortn IneM. ther were thone who Imme dlrtely felt that Mr. Tsft had come to scourge the southern wing of his C10TS GEESTEEOSC OECraHUEIETrri Richmond, Dec. :0. Charles Wills of Alexandria, Va., died her yesterday In private hospital. He waa a greet srandson of Marshall Joachim Murat, whom Napoleon made king of Naple. Wills was born st Jacksonville. Kla.. 4 years ago. Murat's son, after Na poleon's downft.ll, emlgrtted to Flor ida. He served 'In ttie confederacy as s Junior ntnVer In the nlnih Vlrslnla adopted and was started on its way to the house. Wlt!i the senate's action, the Rub sian situation has assumed a quieter phase so far at th executive branch of the government S concerned. The official are induing forward to the receipt from Citnl Guild, the Amer ican ambassador to St. Petersburg, of the acceptance by the President Taft of th desire of thl government to terminate the treaty of 1132. Press dispatches from St. Peters. burg Indicate that such an answer al ready has been handed to Mr. Guild, and the contents of the Russian note, aa outlined In the dispatches, are per haps somewhat dlf appointing in that they convey no response to the direct statement by Secretary Knox that America stands ready to open negotla tlons Immediately for a new treaty. Think Commercial Relation ' I7naf fcetcd. Commercial relation between the United State and Russia will not be affected a a result of the abrogn Hon of the treaty of 1132, In the opln Ion of Senator Wtlllam-Alden Smith, of Michigan, because the favored na tion clause of that treaty ha been wept aside by th operation of the maximum and minimum clause of the Payne tariff law carried into effect by the president' proclamation of July IS. 110. The senator's view wo discussed widely at the capital a a feature hith erto lost slg'.it of In consideration of the annulment of the pact. "After careful examination of the tariff of 10." said Senator Smith. ' am positive that the second section known aa the maximum and mini mum clause, has. so far ns prnclamn tlons have -been Issued thereunder, superseded the favored nation clause In the Russian treaty and that our commercial relations with Russia will continue unimpaired ao long as io chang I made In that regulation. Hy formal proclamation Issued by Presi dent Tsft on July IS, 110, the Rus sian government was given the mini mum dutle under the Payn-Aldrlrh law. Thl will, remain the law of the land and, th proclamation Insures to Russia every consideration that It could possibly have under th treaty of 1S3S to remain' in fore so far as her commercial relations with the United Btstes are concerned. Senator Smith Is a member of the foreign relation commute of the senate and for many years was a meenber of th foreign affair commit tee of th house. He mated hi con tention on th floor of th senate In replying to Senator Heyburn, who de plored the possible breaking of com mercial relations between the f.v. countries. Suit Rejected, slay Woman. Ppeelal to Th Gasette-New. Ksyettevllle, Dec. SO. Calvin Smith. a negro, shot and Instantly killed Har riett Jloes, a negro woman, and seri ously wounded her lS-vear-old daugh ter near Hope Mills, when the older women refused to let him have her daughter. Smith had already married two of Harriett Ross' daughters, boih of whom had died. M Ifcmakl Ili Ifcxljr Burled at Sea. New York. Deo. SO. Alexander Mrlkmuld, who was captain of the first English boat that crossed the Atlantic to try for America's cup, died from unenmnnla i.n lh. Itnaw f'allfur- cnvalrv snd was sfVf.rt.lv inin,l.il In' ... .i i... . . , IO PCOUIRe inn p.minin nn , 11 m - - - --- , ti, 1111 imtt ii, juni iiiiipiiru. n we pHrty for lis own good. Whom Mr. " !' or Kpon.vtinia court house. I , officer of the steamship. The body Tatt luve'h r. thaitanuth. such pr- Tn b0'1 "terred In th Holly- Waa burled at sea. Wvod cemstery this afternoon. . , ii' ty .rr : i ftoi or Less m mm m ,v r. v No other store in town can give you the low prices that we arebffering to the Christmas trade. This is a mighty broad state ment to make, but it is readily understood when you consider that our stock is nothing but drummers' samples. We can and do sell for less than other stores are buying at. We buy for 1-2 from the wholesaler and importer and sell for 1-2 what you would pay elsewhere. We buy for cash and sell for cash. The best way would be for you to put down the name of the ' (ium sampif m 30 SOUTH MAIN on your shopping list and visit us. Every article in the house bears its price in plain figures. ' A comparison of our prices with the price3 of other stores will convince you that you can save money by dealing here, . A new shipment coming in today from St. Louis and Cin cinnati. Ladies' Fur Coats, Misses' Coats and Children's Coats, Caps, Gloves, Knit Goods, High Class Underwear, Shoes and Rugs. All drum mers' Samples from this seas on's goods. .Less iur .. . iviioiiiie ii vuii .'.TV IT '
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