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V This- AKGtrs o'er the people's risrht. Doth an etermal vifiril keep 1 No soothing: strains of Mala' obs Can bill its hundred eves to uleen. Vou XIV GOLDSBORO. N. C THUESDAY, JULiY 24. 1902. . 8 1 i-3 i ... 1 t :1 "I THE STATE CONVENTION. The Editor of the Argus Views the Great Conclave and Reviews Its Work. ! The Democratic State convention that inet in Greensboro on Wednes- ! day was the greatest gathering of North Carolina Democracy I have ever witnessed, greatest in number of attendance, greatest in responsi bilities resting upon it, and greatest in open, fearless fulfilment of every duty. It is needless to discuss here the personnel of the ticket named the J Chief Justice, lion. Walter Clark, the two Associate Justices, Hons. H. G. Connor and Piatt D. Walker, the Corporation Commissioner, Mr. E. C. Beddingfield, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mr. J. Y. Joy ner. These men were selected be cause ot their already well-canvassed claims and recognized fitness for the respective positions to which they have been named, and any further comment on them as candidates now would be a useless waste of space in these columns and the time of our readers further than to say that they will be triumphantly elected in November next. But it was In its fearless presenta tion of the platform and its heroic adherence to democratic principles that the great convention sized up "four square" to the requirements of a great party worthy of the confi dence and support of the people. The principal controversies over the platform were as to the plank which read: "We reaffirm our alle giance to the Democratic party and its policy as enunciated in the na tional platform" the opposition re questing that it should read: "We reafiirm our allegiance to the funda mental principles of the Democratic party." But the convention, after a full and free discussion of the matter, decided by an overwhelming vote that the national Democracy, with its intelligence, 'patriotism and fidel ity to the best interests of all the people, can be trusted to make a platform, when it next convenes, up on which the North Carolina Democ racy can stand with absolute faith and complete approval, and there fore the above plank as presented by the majority of the platform com mittee was adopted. The next controversy was over the proposed plank providing for a State primary for the selection of TJ. S. Senators, and after full and compre hensive discussion it was decided, upon a roll-call vote of counties, by a sweeping majority, to eliminate this plank entirely from the plat form. And, to my mind, this was as the fulfilment of prophecy in the light of one utterance in the splen did speech of Senator Simmons be fore the convention at its opening, and proves -that the Democracy of the Old North State is as true to the Constitution of the Republic as when her legislature adopted it in 17S9. . It was near the conclusion of his great and masterful speech, when every ear was alert upon his words, that Senator Simmons said: "The Democratic party was born when the nation was born. It has lived through all the annals of our history as a na tion, and will continue to live as long as the Republic endures, be cause it is the party of the people and the Constitution." And the ac tion of the convention on this much mooted primary question sustained the assertion of Senator Simmons. As an American citizen who re gards the Constitution as the highest manifesto of organized government : as a North Carolinian who loves H b State and is proud of her traditions and her people ; as a Democrat of abiding party fealty and convictions of party integrity, I am profoundly gratified that my State, which was the last but one to adopt the Consti tution, has not been among the first to forsake it ; for this idea of electing United States Senators by the popu lar vote by .the primary system is entirely unconstitutional, and should it ever prevail which God grant may never be then, indeed, will our great and glorious government j the grandest in all the earth be in the throes of earthquake that cannot but destroy our free institutions and render our Republic a prey to com- I munism and anarchy, in whose wake j will follow revolution, sure and j swift, and the utter destruction of every fabric of our constitutional guarantees of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." j These are no high-sounding plati- ' tudes nor glittering generalities. : Everv man who has studied the eth-; i ics of. popular government, who is familiar with the history- the rise and fall Of governments, and who believes that the Constitution of our i Republic was the outcome of Inspi ration that the men who formulated it were vouchsafed Wisdom on High j knows that these are the words of ! soberness and truth. There is something there is some thing about this Senate of ours that appeals very profoundly to our pat riotism, to our intelligence, to our own selves and to our hope of pos terity and especially profoundly to those of us who observe day by day, the working, the power, the glory of the Senate! To me the greatest man in all the world is a United State Senator! Why? Because he is the represent ative of a sovereign State of State's rights. There is much in that! Emblazoned upon the mightiest of all flags save one in history was the proud and boastful legend: "The Senate and the Republic Of Rome." No greater power had the old Ro man Senate than has that legislative body of our own which is named for the Senate of Rome. We go further and call our splendid white palace on the high hill overlooking our na tional city, the Capitol, even as the Romans called their house of legisla tion. But even as the Senate of Rome made the way through the Capitol for the downfall of Roman greatness, our own Senate, two thousand years after Ca?sar and after the Christ, seems to be standing between our republic and destruction. No enlightened man may, close at hand or far away, under the unfail ing light of love of country, thought fully study conditions that now ex ist and not realize that the Senate is the power standing between .us and the fading of the republic. And one misreads the signs of the times un less he sees that this great mas3 of four score millions of people are looking to the Senate for salvation. The Senate, we all of u know,is our last resort as freeinen as citizens of a sovereign State whose rights are infringed or liberties menaced by legislation of the lower house of Con gress or the usurpation of power by any official of the goverment. The Senate alone remains our delibera tive body. In the Senate is anchored a free people's freedom. In the Sen ate alone is every sovereign State equal is State's rights recognized and maintained, regardless of popu lation, or metes of territory, or num erical representation in the lower House. Yet, the idle-minded call the Senate "the millionaires' club." What difference does it make if nearly a fourth of the Senators are millionaires, or that a dozen of the eighty and eight bought their seats? We still have the Senate, the bul wark of free speech, against which the changing, ephemeral, mob-law of public clamor and the ambition of mere politicians, and often lll-di rected efforts of the House of Repre sentatives beat vainly, where there is no limit to debate, where the sover eignty of the State is recognized and maintained and State's rights are unpaenaced and untrameled. So the convention did well did wisely in standing by the Constitu tion. that gi res the sovereign State the right, through its General As sembly, to choose who shall repre s ant it in the Senate branch of the Congress of the United States. In everything that could possibly conduce t the comfort, convenience and pleasure of the hosts of delegates assembled within her- gates the Greensboro people were most solicit ous to ascertain and prompt to pro vide, with a cheerfulness that was unfeigned and a courtesy that was the manifestation of innate good breeding and royal hospitality. Jos. E. Robinson. STORMS IN THE WEST. Five Deaths From Lightning In Illinois Ripened Grain Is Beaten to the Ground and Ruined. Chicago, July 19. Severe storms, deadly with lightning bolts and ruinous with torrential rains, wrought millions of dollars damage through the Western States yesterday. Five persons are known to have been killed by lightning in Illinois. Many of the outlying districts are entirely cut off from communication and the results of the storm in them cannot be tully told. In Iowa especially the rains which fell have led to flood conditions which, it is feared, will cause more damage on the upper Mississippi than has been known in several de cades. In Illinois, Joliet is rendered a heavy sufferer by the rise, of the Desplaines river, while from all through the State reports are receiv ed showing the destruction which has been done to the crops by the hail and rain, causing serious losses among the farmers. The crops, many of them just ripe for cutting, are beaten down to the earth, and where the grain has been stacked the rain has beaten in and rotted the shocks. In Indiana And Wisconsin the storm also made its appearance, but with less force than in Iowa. Nebraska and Colorado did not es cape the deluge of rain. From two to five inches is reported in many towns in these two States, and per haps the only - welcome result of the floods, the water famine in Denver, which for a time threatened to crip ple theindnstries of the city, is re lieved. . While the west was thus suffering from storms, intolerable weather con ditions elsewhere were caused by the extreme heat. Several prostrations were reported in Ohio, while the temperature was unusually high. Indianapolis, July 19. Northern and western counties were visited by heavy wind and rain, accompanied by unusual electric displays, last night and today. After sweeping over those sections it passed south, doing much damage in southern counties. In Grant county many of the derricks of the oil companies were blown down and demolished and a number of barns were struck by lightning. One house in Mariyn was wrecked.' D. M. Cox and C M. Ross wTere both badly injured, but not fatally. In Delaware, Jay, Miami, Madi son and Putnam counties the storm was very severe. Jacob Holloway and Georgia Holloway were so se verely shocked by lightning that they may die. Joseph Frey, near Vincennes, was killed by a bolt of lightning while at work in a field. In some of the counties the rain was accompanied by a heavy fall of hail, and whole fields of corn were broken down and stripped. FIFTEEN ARE DROWNED. The People Perish Like Rats in Their Flooded Basements. Kieff, European, Russia, July 21. Fifteen persons were drowned yes terday by a sudden inrush of water into the basement of various houses in the lower portions of the town. A torrential rainstorm, accompanied by violent wind and rain, broke over Kieff during the afternoon and turn ed the streets into veritable torrents, flooding cellars and drowning their occupants before they were able to escape. Large trees were uprooted and railroad emDanKments were washed away, necessitating the sus pension of traffic. The losses sus tained are very heavy. You can't afford to miss the Special Sale at Asher Edwards', commencing I Monday July 21st and lasting until Saturday the 26th. THE STIKING MINERS. They Issue an Address and Provide For the Sinews of War. Indiannpolis, July 19. The - con vention of the United Mine Workers called to consider the question of a general strike, adjourned at noon to day after arranging for a defense and that will aggregate nearly $1, 000,000 a month and issuing an ad dress to the people of the country setting out the condition of the strik ing miners in the anthracite fields and appealing for additional aid in the "struggle. The plan for raising a fund is really a compromise between the two modes suggested, and par takes of the nature of both a direct arbitrary levy of one dollar a week in some sections and of 10 per cent on all salaries' of national, district and sub-district officers. An important resolution introduc ed by President Nichols of the an thracite fields and adopted by the convention, instructs alljlocal organ izations to appoint committees to find work for the striking anthracite men, and as soon as this is done those who can obtain work are to be transported to the field of labor at the expense of the organization. One of the anthracite delegates said that this resolution was adopted in order that some of the men who are on strike and who are restless un der present conditions and likely to return to work if the strike is much further protracted, may be given work outside of the anthracite field. The address to the people of the country setting out the miners' cause is largely along the lines of for mer addresses and is also in the na ture of a defense of the strike now In progress in Pennsylvania. , - THE MEAT COMBINE. Progress in Consolidating Big Pack ing Concerns. Chicago, July 19. Another move in the plan to consolidate all packing interests of the country into one giant company was made today when a deal was completed that gives the trust control of big interests at Sioux City, Iowa. This was the purchase by the interests that control the Sioux City stock yards of the Sioux City Traction Company, which owns all the street-car lines in the city, with a trackage of 45 miles, and the Sioux City Gas and Electric Light Company. The companies will be merged. Swift & Co., the packers, are considered by Sioux City finan cial men to be the real purchasers. That the Rockefeller millions are behind the scheme and are backing the Armour and Swift interests in the consolidation is believed to be the case in spite of denials. A GREAT ARMY POST. ' Raleigh Times. Washington, July 19. Secretary j Mrs. C. R. Holleman, of this city, Root today gave the final order for ! who is 90 pears old, was among the the establishment of the four great ' large congregation who heard Rev. military posts which are to be the j Frank Dixon preach at the First gathering places of the United States J Baptist church yesterday morning, forces in case of war, and in time of ' Seventy-five years ago Mrs. Hollo peace are to be great training schools raan attended the First Baptist jor both regulars and militiamen. j church of Hartford, Conn., of which This, the first post, will be at Chick- Mr. Dixon is now pastor. That was Secretary Root has allot ted the sum of $450,000 for the con- , struction of a post there, calculated ' to accommodate one full regiment of cavalry and one company or artil lery, which force is to be the neuclus of the future great military post. Gen. Boynton, president of the Chickamauga Park Commission, af ter some quiet negotiation, has been able to secure nearly two-thirds of the square mile of land required for the :post -proper and the remainder will be sought by condemnation pro ceedings. As this tract adjoins the Chicka mauga National Park, the troops will have the run Of the ten square miles comprising that tract in large man-ouevres. A FURTHER EXTENSION. Through West Virginia's Coal Fields to Ironton, Ohio. Baltimore, July 21. An air line from the Great Lake to the South Atlantic seaboard is made possible by a deal which has been practically consumated by the Union Trust Com pany of this city. The Union Trust Company has justcompleted arrange ments to finance. the extension of the old Ohio River and Charleston Rail road from the coal fields of West Virginia to Lincolnton, N. C. It has been decided also, it is un derstood, to extend their road north ward to Ironton, Ohio, where it will connect with the Detroit Southern, Samuel Hunt, president of the latter road, is also president of the Ohio River and Charleston, which has been recently taken over by a new com pany, known as the South and West ern. At Lincolnton the road will con nect with the Seaboard Air Line, with which company close agree ments for the inter-change of traffic have been made. The line will be the shortest from the West Virginia coal fields to the sea and if the extension to Ironton is built, it will give the Seaboard an independent and short route to the Great Lakes. SIX MILLIONS DAMAGE. Loss Much Greater Than Before Rivers Falling at One Place, and Rising in Another. Keokuk, Iowa, July 21. The height of the flood in the Mississippi River was reached today south of here. . The river fell an inch and a -M- half at Keokuk today and the fall will reach southern points by tomor i row. But the rise of a foot more in j the vicinity of Canton, Quincy, La Grange and Hannibal carried the water over thousands of acres previ 1 ously uninjured. The highest water is between LaG range and Gregory, where the water on Sunday was well below the rails of the St. Louis, Keokuk and Nor wh western Railway on the bank of the river. A flood is pouring over the tracks today and reaching to the steps of the coaches. The roadbed is good and trains are delayed only by slow running through water. Farmers report a much greater . loss than before, but estimates approximating $6,000,000 damage over seventy-five miles of ! river frontage will not be changed greatly. The river here is full of debris. South of here the flotsam includes thousands of rabbits as passengers on logs, pieces of houses and other wreckage. AFTER 75 AEARS. over 40 years before the present pas tor was born. Mr. Dixon took charge of the work there about four years ago. REHEARSING. London, July 18. An official not ification was issued this morning that at the King's command the cor onation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra will take place August 9. Rehearsals of the procession from Buckingham palace to Westminster Abbey took place this morning. The officials of the various state depart ments concerned in the abbey cere mony are again busy with prepara tions for the crowning. NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOLS FIFTY YEARS AGO. Progresssve Farmer. It will astonish the average North Carolinian to learu how much prog ress the State had made in educa tional matters before the beginning of the Civil War, and how serious was the relapse resulting from the war and Reconstruction. When we consider with what exceedingly great joy we, herein the dawn of the twentieth century, have hailed the coming of the long-promised four months' term in every district, it is interesting to turn to the first report of Dr. Calvin II. Wiley, Sup erintendent of Public Instruction, is sued about 1855, and read: "The average time during wliich all the schools are taught in the year, for the whole State is about four months. For nearly every four square miles of territory in the State, there is a schoolhouse, and of our fifty thousand square miles not one hundredth part of it is out oi the reach of the schools. There are perhaps two thousand school houses and from Currituck to Cherokee they are accessible to more than ninety-nine hundredths of our popu lation, reaching to the shores of every lake and river, to the heart of every swamp, and to the top of every mountain." Means and opportunities consider ed our ancestors did a greater work than we are doing. PUBLIC LEDGER SOLD. Over Two and One Quarter Million Dollars Involved in the Trans action. Philadelphia, July 21. The Phil adelphia Public Ledger was today purchased by Adolph S. Oelis, from George W. Childs Drexel and the Drexel estate and possessions was at' once given Mr. Oschs. The purchase includes all the Public Ledger estate comprising about halt a block of property on Chestnut and Sixth street, facing Independence Hall. The price paid is not made public, but it is stated on good authority that over two and one quarter mil lion dollars are involved in the trans action. Mr. Ochs has no associates in the transaction except that a sub stantial interest has has been acquir ed by James M. Beck, of Philadel phia, who represented the purchaser in the negotiations. There is no un derwriting and with the exception of Mr. Beck's interest, Mr. Ochs is the sole owner. The new owner says there will be no radical changes in the appearance or policy of the Public Ledger. L. Clark Davis will continue as editor and John Norris, of the New York Times, will for the present act as business manager. HURRICANE IN BALTIMORE. Baltimore, July 20. A fierce tor nado, characterized by a windstorm of extraordinary velocity, thunder, vivid lightning and. a heavy rain, suddenly burst upon Baltimore at 1:30 p. m. today, coming from the southwest, with the net re&ult that 11 persons lost their lives, hundreds of houses were unroofed, trees in the public parks and streets were torn up by the roots, many buildings damaged and several people injured The storm exhausted its fury in less than 15 minutes. Sick Headache? Food doesn't digest well? Appetite poor? Bowels1 constipated? Tongue coated? It's your liver ! Ayer's Pills are liver pills; they cure dys pepsia, biliousness. - 25c. All druggists. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Then use BUCKINGHAM'S DYElvhS&rs BO cti. or Okuoowts, on R. p. Hu a Co., Nashua, m.m. I ft w u Tnn
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