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ANOmNLETTER
TO REPUBLICANS
560 MEXICANS
DIE IN BA.TTLE
Mr. Pearson Sets Forth Reas
ons for Opposing Nomina
tion of Mr. Taft and for
v' Supporting Roosevelt.
RECORDS AND PROSPECTS
1 OF THE TWO COMPARED
A Forcible Document Meet
ing for State Organization of
Roosevelt Men Is to Be
Held March 8.
The Roosevelt republicans are pur
suing energetically the task of organ-
lxtion and crystallizing the sentiment
' In favor of the nomination by their
party of the ex-president to succeed
President Taft.
The next move of consequence will
lie a meeting In Greensboro March 8
at 10 o'clock a. m. for the purpose of
effecting a state-wide organization,
At the recent Chicago conference
lion. Richmond Pearson was
unpointed a member of the
national Roosevelt committee. Mr,
Pearson has prepared an open let
ter to ihe' republicans of North Caro-i
Him In which he contrasts the records
and prospects of the president and
the ex-president and sets forth specif
ically and with characteristic force
reasons for opposing the re-nomlna-ti.in
of Mr. Talt and for supporting
the nomination '.of Col. Roosevelt. Mr.
Pearson's letter follows: "
ll. iiHOim rr 0mhIiik the-Nomination
or Mr. Turt. v
1, He has split the party.
2. If nominated he can command
the support of only a part of the
party. V
S. When his administration was
put on trial in the elections of 1910.
he lost a million Votes In. five states
alone, he lost 13 republican governors
ami 44 renublican congressmen, con
verting a republican majority of over
" 40 In the house to a- tfemocratte'rntf-
" JoVity of 'over 60. '
4. Since the election of 1910 he
has lost republican support by reason
of- his obstinate advocacy of reciproc
ity with Canada against the recorded
judgment of a majority of the repub
licans -In the house and a majority of
republicans In the senate.
S. In allying himself with the dem
ocrats to force through this measure
which has never been sanctioned In
any republican platform he alienated
iniiny of the ablest republicans in the
hoiine and In the senate, and he ad
mits in the celebrated Norton letter
that he tried by the use 6f patronage
to coerce tltese unwilling republicans
to vote against their convictions. In
Ibis fatuous course he lost republi-
run support and conlidence while he
i gained nothing not even thanks
from the democrats.
. In the campaign of 1910 he said
' In his Winona speech that the Payne
Aldrich tariff was the best tariff that
had ever been written in- the statute
' books. The election followed shortly
thereafter and the people condemned
this measure with an almighty con
demnation. . As soon as the people had
spoken at the polls, Mr. Taft awaked
from his happy dream and said very
frankly, "Oh, see I was mistaken, we
' worked the old thing the wrong way:
it should have been revised down and
' not me we will try our hands again
. . . . V. .u,iu
Inn me revising , JT e
schedule by schedule." i
. This vacillation of Mr. Taft may be
urged as a proof of his candor but It
can hardly be set up as evidence ni j
his political sagacity or qualities of
loadersalp. ,
The confession came, too late; the
fatal error had been committed. "The
llanies that lit the battle wreck shone
round him o'er the dead." Thirteen
dead governors. 44 dead congressmen,
' fallen on the perilous ridges of battle
beyond the power of restoratives, 'be
yond the hope of resurrection.
, For some unaccountable reason
Mr. Taft has come forward recently
Continued on page three.
WINDSTORM RAGES
IN SOUTHERN ALABAMA
.Heavy lnmnge In Done- at
anil to Surroiiiidliia;
Towns.
Mobile
Mobile, Feb. 24. Much "damage
was done here and In surrounding
towns by a windstorm which blew
In from the gulf this morning. It Is
uild Coden. Hay Mlnette and other
towns sustained heavy damage.
1G8 DIE IN SNOW
Slimy Frozen Inrtng Storm In
.Vicinity of Omsk, In Asiatic
ItiiHsla.
the
Omsk, Asiatic P.ussla, Feb. 24. A
large number of people have been fro
zen during a snowstorm which Isr rag
ing In this section. Thirty-one fatal
ities have occurred here. 32 In Kok
topathak ami 105 in Petropavlovsk.
Wilson lit Naslivlllo.
Nashville, Feb. 14. Woodrow Wll
son Is htrc and speaks tonight at the
.'Mllng exercises of Nashville's 1400,-
010 Y. M. C. A. InilKung. rnis morn
ing Wilson met members of the Wood
row Wilson club, the reception con
I'liwllog Willi a. luncheon.
MAKE CQMPllOM S
BANKING
0
Pujo Resolution Broadened as
a Concession to the Bryan
Faction.
Washington, Feb. 24. The "money
trust" inquiry resolution finally agreed
upon by the rules committee after
several weeks dickering is before the
house for passage before today's ad
journment. The resolution, as it came
from the rules committee, provided
Inquiry by tiie banking and currency
committee into the country's financial
affairs, as to what legislation is neces
sary, and contains the further direc
tion that allegations In the Henry
resolution, which was turned down by
the caucus, be investigated.
Opponents of the Krynn plan for an
Investigation by a special committee
Insist that the compromise Is one of
phraseology only, while Representa
tive Henry, chairman of the rule
committee, who led the fight for an
Inquiry by a , special committee, in
stead of standing committees of the
house, claim a victory.
Representatives of both sides ex
press satisfaction, howevbr, of a re
draft of the resolution Introduced by
Representative Pujo, chairman of the
banking and currency committee, to
w hich will ho referred the major por
tion or the investigation. It was made
by the democratic, members of the
rules committee.
The original Pujo resolution pro
vided merely that there he an inquiry
Into the financial condition of the;
country and as to what financial legis
lation might he necessary. This was
by direction of the democratic caucus,
in which was voted down tjie resolu
tion of Representative Henry, which
charged the existence of a money
trust and included a long lift of al
legations of control' by the money
power. '
After many dayspf fight the demo
cratic members of the rules commit
tee agreed to Insert in the Pujo reso
lution a clause that the committee on
banking and currency also be directed
to Inquire into such .matters "touched
upon In house resolution No. 405 as
may come within the jurisdiction."
House resolution No. 405 is the Henry
resolution which was turned down in
the caucus.
Although the resolution contains no
sptIflc mention of the Henry allega
tions of the power ot "money trnm,
reference to his charges In the resolu
tion has done much to smooth over
the party quarrel although the rules
committee chairman Is Will disap
pointed because the inquiry was not
referred to a special committee.
BBYAN SAYS HE'LL STRIVE
TO ELECT ft PROGRESSIVE
He Offers to Champion with All
His Force a "True
Democrat."
Denver, Feb. 24. William Jennings
Rryan, in an address here hist night
declared that the democratic party's
only chance of victory this fall Is to
nominate a progressive on a progres
Rive platform.
"I am satisfied." Bryan said, "some
one elso can poll more votes than my
self and I am ready to enter upon n
campaign on behalf of a true demo
crat with even more vigor than that
which I have fought at any time In
my own behalf."
BEIRUT IS BOMBARDED
BY ITALIAN WARSHIPS
Punic Prevails Among the Inhiibi
tnntH of Syrian lily, .Most of
. Whom Are Christians.
London, Feb. 24. Three Italian
warships are bombarding Beirut, Syr
ia's principal seaport, according to a
special dispatch. Terrible panic pre
vails among 'the city's inhabitants, the
TonrM, of vhom .r Christiana
The tiring was brief. The Ameri
can Protestant college is safe and
none of the American institutions
suffered Injury from the explosion of
nhells. Professors, students and mis
sionaries ure safe.
Sixty people were killed and a large
r
number wounded as a result of the
bombardment. These are official fig
ures. u Many more casualties are prob
able. , .
BEHEADED BY ROBBERS
Two Negroes Tmlled by Hounds As-
rcslcd an Murderers of Promi
nent Ohio Farmer.
Oalllpolis, O.. Feb. 24. Peter Zer
Her, a prominent farmer, was mur
dered and his home robbed and then
burned In Kn attempt to cover the
rrlme early tills morning. Zrrier's
head was severed by the murderer
I'wo nero suspects were arrested
fid- bloodhounds bud trailed thoin.
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New York Herald and The Oazette-Newa.
THB NEWESTf
. TRFT ASKS GONSRESS
FOR TWOJATTLESHIPS
i
I Says the Time Has Not Come
to Sacrifice Navy to
Economy.
Washington, Feb. 24. President
Taft, speaking at the peaea meetings
of the Naval league, yesterday de
clared the time had not come for this
country to be economical at the ex
pense of an adequate naval establish
ment: expressed the hope that the
present congress would authorize the
construction of two battleships and
raid that he would gladly sign a bill
that carried such an authorization.
In order to keep up with other oa-
tiona 1 don't think two battleships
are too many," said the president. "I
am partly responsible for the govern
ment and I am entirely willing to
meet that responsibility by signing a
hill for two battleships."
Rear Admiral Wainswrlght, U. S. N.,
retired,- Representative Swagar Sher-
ley of Kentucky and Charles Francis
Adams of Boston were other speakers
at this meeting, the last of the seventh
annual convention of the league. Sec
retary Meyer accompanied Mr. Taft to
the meeting.
I am in favor of a good strong
navy that would enanie mis nation iu
maintain Us position and make our
reasonable demands on other countries
respected," said the president.
"I don't thing the time has come to
economize In respect to the navy. The
navy is expensive, but so Is the army,
so Is war, and the expense of the three
is a good reason for the abolition of
war If there were none other. But
until wnr Is abolished we should meet
the situation and we should be lack
ing In foresight and common sense
unless we did:"
Admiral Walnwrlght told the dele
gates that the war with Spain would
never have occurred ot the United
States had possessed one or two more
battleships In 1898. -
Representative Bherley urged the
leacuers to inHt that a "program" of
navul construction he presented
congress.
to
SAVED MANY LIVES
Mexican Iloy KkmI Through Smoke.
' filled Shnrt at Ix-hlgh to Wriin
ImMiilcd Miners.
Lehigh, Okla.,. Feb. 24. Half the
homes In'Lehlgh were prevented from
being robbed by death through the
heroism of Rufona 'Rodrlgue. a Mex
ican boy, who during the mine disas
ter near here which cost sevfn lives,
traveled a mile and a half around the
mine through smoke to warn follow
workmen.
The fire In the shaft probably will
be got under control today.
Calls for Pa nk Reports.
'Washington, Feb. 24. The comp
troller of the currency today bvmetl a
'Icall for reports on the condition of
national banks to be made February
J8.
it k 'LJf N 'i $f
THING IN CALLING COSTUME
NEK Gil GulSIS
SEEMS TO BE NEAR
Veterans Seem1 Disposed to Re
sist Decree Ousting Them
from Office.
Washington, Feb., ?4. Another
Cuban crisis Is apparently imminent.
Island reports indicate the unrest is
about to break out anew as a result
of the Cuban Supreme' court's decis
ion Invalidating the law Busting office-holders
who were Spanish sympa
thizers during the revolution. The
literal execution of the decree would
involve the reinstatement of a large
number of displaced officeholders and
the dismissal of the so-called veter
ans put In their places. Veteran asso
ciation leaders therefore are In an an
ugly humor. If they attempt to re
sist the decree serious trouble Is prob
able, ' , -
Developments are awaited with keen
interest . In official circles. It Is be
lieved the situation will tax President
Gomez' resources to the utmost.
NIT1ALS IN ONE PLAGE
Just to Make It Interesting for
Readers of Special Classi
fied Page.
The doubting Thomases will be the
very ones who fall to get any of the
good, new one-dollar bills being hand
ed out to the readers of the Special
Classified page.
This Dane will contain names of
persons throughout the city each day
during the time this page is run and
every person will be called on and if
they have their names marked they
will receive the money.
To make It interestipg, from now
on the names will be In one place
and the Initials in another. Some
times the names and Initials will go
Into the same advertisement and again
the name in on advertisement and
the Initials In another. The object of
this Idea Is to have the readers go
thoroughly through the page.
The advertisers on this page repre
sent the leading business houses , of
this city and every advertisement is
brimful of information that will tn
terest you. Do not merely glance at
the advertisements but read them, and
you will be benefited.
DRAWS DISMAL PICTURE
OF MILL WORKERS' LIFE
Federal Bureau Report Relates
Conditions as Found in
Southern Factories.
Washington, Feb. 24. A dismal pic
ture of life among the southern cotton
mill workers is painted In a report
Issued today by the federal bureau
of labor. With scanty food and poor
clothing, according to the report.
some of these people exist In crowded
company-owned houses and eat fare
about equal in quality and quantity to
that which the government gives fed
eral prisoners. The bureau selected
as examples 21 typical mill families,
ten llvlnir near Atlanta, six near
Greensboro and five at Burlington, N.
C. The- protest of these was sup-
norted bv several wage-earners. In a
rumily where five were employed, the
earnings totalled between $800 and
1900 annually. Most of the families
im usually at the end of the year
slightly in debt, the report concluded
ROOSEVELT TO BOSTON
Trln to Attend Harvard Overseers
Meeting Declared to lie wiuioui
SIjfiiHh'a'X'c.
New York, Feb., 24. Theodore
Roosevelt today left for Boston to
visit friends and attend the Harvard
overseers' meeting. Roosevelt de-
lared his trip was without political
significance.
HELD IN AXE MURDER
Negro Arrested at Lake Charles Is
Suspected of Wholesale Killings
In Louisiana.
Lake Charles, La., Feb. 24. Ed
ward Giles, a negro, was today arrest
ed as a suspect In connection with the
recent wholesale "axe murders of ne
ro families In this section.
Boat Capsized; Crew Probably Lost.
New York, Feb., 24. . wireless
message last night from the Suvannah
line steamer City of Augusta told the
story ot a probable sea tragedy in
the finding of a capsized steam fish
ing vessel off Cape Lookout, some
70 mlh s south of Hatteras. The craft
was floating bottom up, keel and pro
peller showing. Officers on the City
of Augusta saw no signs of her crew,
Her name could not be made out. The
overturned steamer Is believed to be
one Of the fishing boats of the coast
fleet, caught at sea In the terrific wind
storm of Wednesday night and turned
turtle.
Sanitarium Pavilion Burns.
' Roanoke, Va., Feu 4. Fire today (
dertroyed the LAtane pavilion or tne
state sanitarium, for consumptives at
Catawba. Sixteen patients were res
cued and none was Injured. The
damage is $000, covered by Insnr
tnee. -JsflttS
PRESIDENT CULLS
STORYTALSEHDOO
Denounces Report He Said
People Were Unfit for
Self -Government.
Washington. Feb., . 24. President
Taft today denied emphatically that In
hlB New York speech on Lincoln's
birthday he had said "that the peop'e
une not fitted for self-government" l:i
tb.e first official statement of this klnj
iho White House has Issued during the
Taft administration. The president
calls the circulation of the story a
"falsehood." ,ie White house state
ment follows:
"Among the falsehoods now being
assiduously circulated by persons and
papers opposed to the presiden is-one
I that in hla Lincoln's day speech he
argued that the people are not fitted
for self government. The president
'said nothing on, that -occasion which
j could possibly be tortured Into any
I such construction. The only speech
(In which the president made reference
to popular government was delivered
at the State Bar association banquet
In New York on the night of January
20.
"What he said on this subject, and
It was correctly quoted In the news
papers on the following day, was this:
Popular government we all believe In.
There are those of us who do not be
lieve that all people are fitted for self
government. The fact Is we know they
are not. Some of ua do not dare say
so but I do and the question whether
a people Is fitted for popular self-gov
ernment so as to make that govern
ment best for the people is determined
by the ability of a majority of the
people to place upon itself a restraint
by which the minority shall receive
justice from the majority. ; It la the
question, of, self-imposed restraint that
determines whether a people la flt-
v . nudes to fCooAeve-lt.
While it Is not admitted by anyone
with authority to speak for the presi
dent that hla correction of the Inter
pretation placed by "some people"
upon his New York speech included
Col. Roosevelt, political leaders here
believe such is the , case. . Many of
Taft's friends asserted Uoosevelt had
Taft In mind when, In his Columbus
speech', after areaklng at length of the
"position these eminent lawyers take
and applnud," Roosevelt Igald "the only
tenable excuse for such a position Is
the frank avowal that the people lack
sufficient Intelligence and morality to
he fit to govern themselves."
GUARANTEE $10,000
Executive Committee of the University
Antliorlzes Signing of a Contract
with Pea body Board.
Gazette-News Bureau,
The Hotel Raleigh,
Raleigh, Feb. 24.
At a meeting today of the executive
committee of the university. Governor
Kitchin and President Venable were
authorized to sign a contract with the
Penbody board, which Is putting up
the educational building on the
campus, guaranteeing on the part of
the trustees that 110,000 a year will
be expended for ' educational pur
poses. Dr. J. ,Y. Joyner wai added to the
faculty committee on promotions,
which will work out the plan for the
educational deparament'a organiza
tion.
INDORSE MR. TAFT
Republicans of Second Congressional
District of Virginia Instruct for
Hit) Renomlnatlon.
Norfolk, Feb. 24. The republicans
of Virginia's second congressional dis
trlct today endorsed the Taft admin
istration and elected delegates 1 In
structed to vote for Taft's renomlna
tlon. Delegates to the Chicago con
vention are D. L, Groner and P. J
Riley. ,
A. J. Barr Dead.
Pittsburg. Feb. 24. Albert J. Barr,
aged 81, former publisher ot the Pitts-'
burg Post and Sun and former direc
tor of the Associated Press, died sud
denly today at the Duquesne club.
To Authorize $2,000,000 Bond Issue.
Baltimore, Feb. 24. A special
meeting of the stockholders of the
Georgia & Florida railway has been
called for March 19 to authorize an
issue of $2,000,000 six per cent gen
eral mortgage bonds.
MY CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT
" "V. ....
If I could Select tbe Man I Would Name
Name...
Address .
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ran write It In a registry book provided at the office.
Remits will be imblMied from time to time ami In no cao ill the
name of the voter be given out u-iIcxr so requested.
Rebels Lose Heavily in the
Laguna District and Fed
eral Fatalities Num
ber 60.
DEFECTION REPORTED
OF NOTED GENERALS
News of Coalition of Orozco
and Trevino Comes to
Washington Americans
Ask Protection. C
San Antonio, Feb. 24. Five hun
dred rebels-were killed and the federal
fatalities numbered 60 In a battle In'
the laguna district, Mexico, according
to advices brought here today by a
Mexican government agent. Army
officials here have no Information that
Orozco has quit Madera's standard.
Emlllo Vasquez Gomez today wired
President Madero of Mexico asking
him to surrender the presidency and
prevent further bloodshed. Gomez is
urged as a presidential possibility by
the Vasqulsta revolutionists. '
Washington, Feb. 24. American
troops will cross the border line into
Mexico Whenever It tull huinma noMt'
essary to stop firing Into American ter
ritory. In ordering additional troops '
to El Paso, Tex., to cope with the sit
uation there in the event of an attack
of revolutionists on the Mexican city
of Juarez, the Washington govern- .
ment has determined there should bo
no repetition of the Incidents of the
.Madero revolution, when a number ot
Americans In El Paso and Douglaa.
Ariz., were killed by flying bullets
from opposing forces across the bor
der. -
Tn llovalnnmanta Im I.a Ha awIa..
situation, each t tUen to he loaded with
significance, were recorded here yes-
A request for American Intervention
in Mexico Was made! upon the war ,.
delegation - when .Mayor Kellv - and ft. 'v
i"irB-iu-i-i ui t-ivi.t-iin or tji raso ur
gently asked , Secretary Stimson to
send American troops Into Juarez to
preserve order, and protect Americans.
Secretary Stimson replied, it was im
possible under present conditions.
In a dispatch from a government
official on the border, one not in the
diplomatic service, it was reported
that Gen. Geronimo Trevino In Chi
huahua, had turned to, the aid of the
insurrectos. The dispatch read:
"Have reliable Information that
General Orozco will join the revolu
tionary forces of General Geronimo j
Trevino. Has agreed to accept pro
visional presidency of Mexico.;' !
The dispatch which speaks of "the '
revolutionary forces of Gen. trevino"
is the first indication that the staunch
old federal general who stood by Diaz
when his reign was tottering
and was later accepted by Madero,
had turned to the Insurrectos.
The Mexican embassy had no ad
vices and no official there cared to
make comment. The state depart
ment received no confirmation and
was Inclined to treat the dispatch as
a report of a rumor.
Coalition Would Be Strong.
A coalition between Generals Oroz
co and Trevino is looked upon here as
fraught with great consequences Gen.
eral Trevino was last reported in
Monterey In control ot the military In
the, northeastern part. These two
generals, hitherto controlling practi
cally all federal troops in the north
ern half of the country might, it is
believed, completely cut off the north
from the south, isolating Mexico City
and its Immediate vicinity from con
nection with the United States.
The rather ambiguous wording of ?
the last sentence of the dispatch re- -gardlng
the provisional presidency,
was Interpreted among Lattn-Amerl-eans
here two ways. The majority
declared It was Intended to mean that '
General Trevino rather than Orozco
had agreed to accept the provisional
presidency,
Mayor Kelly of El Paso, Manchester
Cooley, an El Paso banker, and three
other citizens of that place told Sec
retary Stimson that Juarez with 24.- .
000 population, linked to El Paso by
an International bridge and trolley
lines, was virtually a part of El Paso.
Nightly robberies, hold-ups, and as
saults in Juarez, In which Americans
were victims and In which their busi
ness houses were looted. , have be
come intolerable. They asked that
soldiers be sent to patrol the city until
tho Mexican government could control
the situation. By the withdrawal of
Madero troops, the mayor said, Juore
had been left defenseless.
Secretary Stimson pointed out that
United States troops could not be sent
Into foreign territories under the
present situation and said that a de
(Conttnued on page 8.)