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- On ppintlng.of ev: .Pamphlet, EooUl. C ' --V :;.--? -.35 - .Brio''.: .V, . ENTERTAIN MENT8 '-ports, Briefs or fhe-.feest t;i:' prfntingf the Invitations, ; Programs, ; ' "'I ' J' ' ' 'ete. The best; work In the city at' 'cheaper thaft any printer . In this sec-' !;r'' ' ' , 1 k ,aftenaKe prteefcir.;r ' - i ' irSlilSSlliiSe and IndustHal, Inteles s, of Eastern North Carolina. . .HP? 4 ..V. vTTT NORTH leARQLINA'S; LEADING; NEWSPAPER: i1 v - ; S; -'; .r: -i: VOL III iiSliiiiliii OCTOBER 30, 1903. .r,. class wortc Jn" this line I- r. - ' MOTA WW ' W& Iv1 tfZi&lY&MU nnvQiLDiniiG mi r iii ii 1 1 t - JVIIUI LIIIUUU V,, f.1 r- K. R. Last! Sunday night and ?Hasj Hot Sinco A case which, in 'depth of -mystery, is not uniiw ; e4ceiehrated case, occurred in , this . ' "city. Str-day night, when -Mr.' K. -it.;; BeU? highly respected dtizen.;i disappeared, .from liis home on Second street.7T;;i;y Mr. Bell ras. itttojg up vSuhdjiy nigni oy iae juusiae $ira -sick aauga ter. . About one o'clbckf the daughtei fell asleep, while , the' father w8-- parently ..sleepinsla.''tvby side. . In about an : bonr; the ' vonn e lady awoke;fndridlserjthate lamer was u. iu- vuo' jrooia. ;. ne. u?J5 not beei seenlnce." he call?dto her mother, who, after- vainly search ing the premises, gave' the alarm? ""Mr. J. B. Ferebee, a son-in-law of th& mis sing man, was sent for, and from, then until jww he has been diligent !in the search for him. - ; "-f " - - 'y. MrFerebeeV; whq Wasseen-tiya. Tar Heel . reporter i lastnighl, spf the opinion that Mr. "-.Bell's niind had become 's temporarily -' deranged 'b-y " the ' protracted ilness his'-daughterto whom he was very much-devoted, and in this state of 'mind it is supposed that he wandered off, perhaps jin the woods, or? perhaps' he . walked over board : at ." some; potot on ..the Pasquo tank'riverfs:r It- has been learned., that the "draw over Knobbs Creek, V at ' the fobt j of Pennsylvania : aveaue,-.waa open. last cuuuaji . oiukt jnvrui jtXAJM1 vA-r'1V U4u after, It, w !suppc might hare walked .overboard at jthl$ . point, but" the', creek . has-een . thor oughly 'drSggeand and the river many points has -been dynamited with some hope f bringing the body ,to the surface,, if it was em braced in the' bosom .of the'; cold watersJv;rs:fft: Searching jisQCU? and the fields and; woods "thoroughly traversed with, some hope' of at least finding the man's body.' The .suicide theory has been advanced,' but it'Js not generally credited. Mr. ,Bell was a native of ' Camden county, and had ' resided in . this wity for several years! He was a njember of the firm of Williams & Bell, who were doing, a saloon business .on , Mat thews street.1 Mr. ' Belt was oheof the bravest men in the Confederate army, and he served throughout the war with distinction. -He was sixty- threel years of age. : ), HONOR TO WHO MIS pUE;BLAM E WHEN IT BELONGS, AND WHY ( Mr. Editor: Our Board of Aldermen is composed -of seven menThe ; StaMrpressin comme'ntlng on ;; Ike- 'action ' of the Board, speak as if all were guilty of voting to set ; aside the result of the recent election to ! decide between sa loons and prohibition. . ; All were - not 3?uiltv. Three! Mr. P.-Hi Wmiamsi' bf the First Ward; Mr. J, H. Lerqy, of the Fourth Ward, and Mr. McAbee, of the Second Ward, all voted to Tecord the prohibition victory. , : They have the reward of a good - conscience in rightly representing the wishes of their constituents as lawfully!; express ed at the ballot poxl .Their people will remember them 'in theV future, as men who are faitbful f to the ' trusts committed to ' them. " The four who voted against recording the. prohibition victbry well, wewill notiwrite their names ( God writes them . X see J er. 17:13), unlucky;13), for they (are not worthy. . Three of ; them will ;.be -remembered in the' future, as men. who . wilfully trampled nndertteiV lowed feet the - voice of ' t6e . voters of the Third, Fifth and ..Sixth, Wasds, and who did it lor the rotectfon f oat " their own personal in.teresitiivj people of their respective wards'" a right to think ;sq?(.; Let W.see. t s not the AldemanJ xrontjhlrd Ward a saloon "keeper ? TJoW Alderman irMs!th4ltf& hotel nrony whiMlialo6iTi run? Haa nottheAldennan the Sixth Ward a Bcln4a business, .'tm44WWWl election totheslir'K voted to rejectee pr 'did they hot votohmelvdr their agents guilty of the1, franda ?)1 charg ed? Who named" th6 reirtstrar and Judges f! of ' the ; ThM-afS, . ? of whom was a- saloon ,kepJ Was jibt the- son of' the' Alderman from .the Sixth Ward registrai.or:ttati:ward? Doestthe fath-cliarge- the crime 'Of ; TjetoR' aWrty't fraud? Who appointed the, men that held, the election in lhemfth Ward? Are they guilty .of fraud? ,do ,riot believe so 'W"ill the Board of .Alder men now proceed to , have the 'regis- "tra-- nfd ?ni nf b;ffo(im trought to the the bar of jusoce that they Belt may be punished or. have a phance to prove tnemseiyes innocent? ' If they are guilty then the. foni; Aldermen f ho voted' toset aside the electionVwere right in , doing . so, ; and the original peUtibners' are entitled ! to another election at once, if they are 'innocent of the ttgly crime -chareed bv th ,our" then the" election itands..as we and all lovers of simple justice believe ,tt iwill.-sjITi Board owe 1U to them- aejves, to rthe entire pteople ,of ..Eliza be'th City, and to Oie reputation of the city, abroad to punish their, appointees who failed to hold the election, in ac; cordance with; law. In closing, allow me -tovsay-that the deman from the Sevenlh .ard was the only man who, to voting . as he did,-.; represented ; the sentiment of. a. majority-of the vote: J ot .his Ward. He alsdias j-.ot representing the .only Cwardv in which the judge - deliberatejy. allowed men to vote ,contrary,to the .Constitu- uiun. joi ine iaie, jas inierprexea Dy tne Attorney ienerai :ncc :: read Vto-vttiem direct; from: him.' - Finally, rour ; victory was rlgWly -Won; tad we Relieve will seefepgout';te 5ity9tpr?.a4.- and-malice to ward , none, 'f I jam for- the, triumph-, of -- r' - v '- .... " ... - -'. , - temperance and truth,. a;v;-vv.-' .. IQufestioh. Isit necessary for : an Alderman to pnrjure himself in .order to represent . a" majority of the 1 voters in the Sixth; or . any other Ward ? . ?: h. t. ATLANTICCM1SSION -CONFERENCE k r.-.';,--:-. .. . -. '- . V The Conference of the Methodist Episcopal. Church, which has been in sessions during last ; week- , and the early r 'part - of this week, adjourned Monday at" 8:30 a.. m. , - ' . ' . The services were well . attended and thoroughly -enjioyed by, ouf people. whol speak , tofhIghest.termj,iof '.the various addresses and sem.ous, which were delivered duringttesessiones- pecially the sermon Bishop Isaac W. Joyce, on Sunday, morning and the sermons , of Dr. ,-E. 8. Dunham, on "Holiness A - J- t The personnel of the Conference, was good and f the ministers and. laymen who attended evidenced a .higih x type of spiritual 'life. OThis" Conference is comparatively young, arid its" worklB' this 'fleld'ls nearjy alt of recent growthearfe mw In w ISasterii I North' CarcaiSat-twb presiding" elder paaforal charges, twenty-sevenchurcb- es, and a schol of college preparatory grade, 'located at. Marshallburg, N- C, the equipmentbf which ; is valued . at Ave thousand rdoIlarsl f fJ''iA: . The Iearl Street Church this city, has been greatly lielfed by these ser vices. ; After the Bishop's sermon on Sunday, notwithstanding, the down pour of rain,- which caused a compara tively small "congregation, a subscript tioia of four hundred" dollars was takeji to pay the local indebtedness" of the churchS"'; : :: " '-.i: 'This" society was -organized- in the old Opera House, in 1897 Ther wor shipped", for - more than a year in the old court room ' on ; Main ' street ; and in 1899 built the . present church . on Pearly street: . The niemberbhip has been steadily growing under the pas torates of Revs. . Fitchand Davis, and now numbers about one hundred, ,with a regular t Sunday " congregation f iomethjnj like -00 . ':: f f. ; The'rtpprts fm the Various charges -jshow a creditable increase in " both membership s and " finances throughout! the Conference during the past year, ' The chuYches of the city .were very fraternal . and opened their . doors to the visiting minis.ters. Dr. E S. ,Dun hamjreacheb on Sunday morning at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, SoutE, and' addressed the young men at the Y.M. .C. A. rooms on Sunday afternoon-'at 4 o'clock. ' Prof. C. M. IvisterspTeached at the Road Street Baptist' Church1 on ' Sunday Vening. ReJoimWl recoiinrcretaTTrof ithefeipnary aii-iatisA "ot'i fKftJ KtJi-i - Avenue, OUtJClJ, luyavvu i.'j 7.. NeW.lVorite City, preached at5 Pearl Street Sunday afternoon ter-wbicli the class of ministers were ordained by. Bishop Joyce.. - ' ' ' : The appointments,' as read j Monday morning by,' the Bishop, "for 1903-4, -are as.fQliowfe?: iSpiniendeltv W Q. A. -Graham, ;-. .'i. v ''.''. W'J D. Aj Grahairi: ' P. ,E. -C larf:tsi$! MabttrgC ;.arboro. ii.; 9.-Ti Hfflip? f:Row1aidsC'B ;p;Wildwobd SiWhitev CpresidtiGraiffij, .ItelMtnte, MarshlburgV'N COjM. tevistef. "-;:e: 6EdridgV.?-E.,U;: -v..-' w. ...Vi .'r.-. .- v-k fe-:"!? - - AvoiiA&P616 "Elizabeth; Cltyi N. T.-S. IDavis lwrencevillewaiS"ge 1: Nbi;fbik;V Va-E; 'Edridge.-::- ;.-;:v' . Wallaceton, '. Va.-To be -snpplied; s'-y CAROLINA'S SONS A i1'-i5-' v-'wf.. t3-S' . v ; -w -.y.-vss'k w' -': Pni P ictii rJbr H w of ITKisAlbemarle SictidtiS 'i - f RV -fVkl -i 15 ; "R VaoAv V ; r," '-'" ( Great ; men sTft ?divideifi rtn- fhrAA cTasses-those. Who - achieve, greatness by 'long and heroic toilthose endowed by v liatnre7 with -generous - giftSp; who bound into greatness fa the early-Btage o jlfe, .nd those born to.: luckand have, greatness thrast .upn; them, with out care' or seeking, -f. ; v'4 ne xwQnrst are. represented in the picirreseh4;aboVe7onMu Halstea' and Hop. Hugh Go lerr-both? sons ,bf North" Carolina, -by lineage and .inheritance, both grand sons' of this Albemarle section qt North varouna, one wnpse, granaiatner .was born, in the "Gbose Honk1? country of Crritijjyiht grandmother and ancestry were born in Camden county, and: lived there for ' generations. """'V. One is bearing bra Vely-- the JSurderi of 74 years, the other Is .stalwart.iD his youth of less than 30 .years. -Both crowned jconQuerors in- the battle' of life, one by climbing slowly the steep where f fame's . proud temple shines afar,"; the; other by leaping into : the arena and, by- a -few-' giant swoops cleav ing his way to the pinnacle of theHemr ple and claiming a right 'to take his seat there by the, side of . "grave and reretend seignbrato- the bud time of his early manhood i-f.fe 'PXnt-f&t . .. They are kindred in blood, . in associa tion, in. opinion and jn.love for the old hce whehcetheiranc . .-And they .were bbthCherer last Veek to revisit the land where their revered ancestors first saw.thejight, and where theyastheheitrly 4nd Imatute life. They came like pilgrims to Iona. to -get new inspiration thanks at the old shrine -where -their fathers worshipped, for the blessings that had faUen.to their lot,, . f. ."It:was a pious mission and had not their visit been so brief and unexpect ed, 1 they, would ; have beenvehan ovatipn from their bid countrymen, in ine anooienr Joneage, jorey, too claim part ia their borarr:- 1 Below, w present pen pictures of the iwp cjasses oi greatness anove men tioned. Wb do not gfe a' type of- the third class, because; he is a, flotsam on thetldeoflife, iafmeri3 abcidna fungus of circumstance, whirligig of fortune that no man need imitate, as he" himself has no hand. In his archi tecture. - The pen - picture of Murat Halstead is a reprint of authentic facts. That of Gordon Miller is the fruit 'Of 7'- HON MURAT HALSTEAD, The Eminent Journalist and. Diplomat. MuratHalstead was born'on Paddy's Run,Ross -Towlisip, - , Butler - County Ohio, September gnd,; ,182? ; attended districtvschbol-'and lak!a(demy? cbn- ducted at New Ix)ndon, MorganTown ship, BuUerjI Dihi Steaa moiner : laugat mm iu icau m the summer days f the' year- hb "was foutf yeari geTn primer he Btudietf-tbknow, his: letters was tiie County, and the Hickory District; But- ler County, tbted,,"Bme,kn,2 IrwjJ his luck" &'Aviuto-.cmP(t4iHif.f ebrr !leld ttw ishres; was iff part- nersniD wita nis cranuiauier iir-a CoUege jHIH; eai&tf 43 1 to tT' tis ntertf ylabor; iatttmptea poetry faKr4hi BbvflWecV sayGjley-s 8-ei' and CakrBi' teperal'IbrgaalH cbmmiiioa W the Cinciahaii Coint mercial was t pnh)Mbun;BjiUders thevMii'jim Savf-rni yf his alesthfant published iiciwM khem'the ite .StagUn.l Lbe "Bira Demoni" : The latter had a ;run in Ore-s gbn; papers ; Literary; labors, oh behalf of' WesteWterture" lappbdb the:onpar5Att mercial ''kf-'MtT' Hamifton Telegraph. ; He ught school intleVain Bisitjiti:'. HamJltoh ..4r ihdjcanturv could any mhzve seen ''-f t''i v'?ft ' BROAD .'t.V room lav -V tnan -TnnA- o atnamKAnf f vf t to New Orleans.: Ah interval of leisnre wavinrovedr1)y' wilting letters; ibr countyweekUesione no duplicates , allowed. - The first sitii- l atlon Mr." Halsteaa. Jieid on a news- jfpaper Was on th Attasf the lBbrt ;'s iptt ne waspaid for was printed in the Cm cinnati Gazettef ZThe. value received was five dollars.,; There .were sixty pagsoi, fbolscapcydthew tng after- three revisions, was ' used i as a IXi i was j published as "A Legend ql the Miami," but evil disbosed persons have insisted that jthe true.nansew&s Th&; Red-Heade'dKaiden "of the Blue Miami." Te author - has' never been able to obliterate f improvements' , on the, name. . Age ,hathi ntWithered nor custom staled its. infinite -vitality - it was. succeeded; by,a long ; talo, called dian stories'-written inrlthe" interest 'of Western literature? Vt? , - sT' -f U . The: author of ;th:Miani .lejf'id;ta this .. period wrote aa enormous fiction expressly for the use of a novelist rA the East, and carefully, published in his name, - which ' soon ; after pror srly disappeared from history Xhe secret of authorship has never been revealed and never;will be. pt lf ynot knowh to any . living creaturesxeept - thWriian who did write it, and he, will not tell Mr. Halstead was. Associate Editor of the yColumbian: and Great West, . a prosperous Cincinnati weekly, when he accepted a call to - the Commercial, Match; 8thrl853.:- ;:T.;' f v Heatehded as special 'writer for the Commercial at the National, political' lop ne t W"-"ess.ei jyie. .execuuon, oi Johri- Brown," and . wrote up the' stormy scenes that foUbwa In Congress."-, He,; attended air the National political con ventions; bf'1860ifritin letters ;ri the Circuit of the; .Conventions,1 and a hook resulted, fir '-'iniieqtttei'.noe, jlMri Halstead saw e -early movte" ments of the invasion of Virginia, was present at the battle of Fredericks burg, and in that town when Stonewall Jacftson urged Lee to storm it in the ni?fit. v. ':s -v. :-r. Probably Mr. Halstead had the largest acquaintance of any man living with the men who made our war his tory, ,CoL -McClure excepted. J He attended the ; millennial settle ment . anniversary of Iceland, in 1874, with, Cynis W. Field, Bayard .Taylor and" Arctic' explorer Dr. Hayes; The King of-: Denmark was the most dis tinguished guest." When .Weyler cele brated himself in Cuba, Mr.. Halstead was there. - In 1898 M acebmpanied GeneraliMerritt to Honolulu and" Gen eral -. Otis - to . Manila, - returning home by . way of Hong Kong and -Nagasaki with' General Green. f f f f- . 5 He considers himself anc expert ( in American islands, having the jare ex pterlehcb':of visiting Iceland, Cuba, and the Hawaii and Philippine . archipela goes. -He has seen aU the continents, with the exception of Australia and -South America. He is' the . author cf six vqlumes of American wars, and "of over twenty books in all, including the Story of Cuba, Story of the Philippines, Our Country in War, Life of Admiral Dewey, Our New Possessions, History of the War with Spain, Life of William McKinley, Life of Theodore Roosevejt. In one year more than one million of Mr.; Halstead's books were sold, in cluding -the record sale ',of seven hun dred thousand copies of ; his Ufe of McKinley.- . He has contributed- to' the New ; York ' magazines-Harpers.rrhe Century, ; Cosmopolitan,- ; J McClnra's, Criterion, Forum NorthAmerican Re view; The eview 'ofv Revtewfit ? iiid : o many. weeklies, .including the New York Independent and the Saturday Evening ;Ppst-g,srH'j .j His Icelandic, FrancoiGermau War, Medtteir'Sanl yaind; btber for eign writings ; his syndicate and r.ews- apercorrespondenceirtndies ftand sketches of public men at home - aad abroad,; have great extent and farietjf. t is recognized - that' hes has written inor5A'obpy Bet ' up by printers t'Juia my other man of hir generation A His sixty years' with the jqws bf he day ; Includes his ; studies aa writ tags oi iu; xne eiecuon oi uarua an JgurbrilSSeas' i&'pim'im-&il t" n;;buriBle tr$ eslderit he 'Msair iwas acijary :!Tayio aiidl5hae jobt missed-IPTesiderit imcei Hisfirst ntrOversialspCiec U Ciricirinati was made isi : the .sprir.'g Department of Justice haveT since, pro of 1854.!;j He prefers the . -freedom of nounced r. Millers argument on that th conversational way of addressing ihat ithalbettltionasianrorator- elbquence'H-is that which conveys in- -In his- sittyi yearSoitsWdyitivel and Writing flfty-five years have beeia occupied :'ew4"afyttie. history day by'day. ' This period covers the era of :r greatest v inventions arid most helpful changes in ,the progress ;bf ;yrnap Wt d.Only witijin. the last half inuchoftheoridsM has; and -in: no other 'industry;,, than journalism ; could s anyone ;have wit nessedso many instructive events." . ; IlljUGHjGORDOM The record of Gordon Miller, is. phe- nominal.: .It has few;if, any parallels fi the iiistory of the English-speaking race, f William Pitt, the illustrious and ybunthful premier : of ; England;5 .and Henry; Clay the great tribune of, the American peoplemost nearly resemble it. He is how recognized as the iore most; i young ; popular V brator . in1 the United States, and his being appointed to supply the place of Chancey Depew, When' he 'was; finable to be present at a poulard demonstration In New York. is -proof .SHeiis?bf tbest blood i of oW a1:.' 1 Camden cbunty, North; Carbltoa tock, a land distinguished in our early, and Gordon Miller; is a noble old county. He is bf Scotch-Irish descent, on-his mother's side,! and is of the famous Gordon clan in Scotland. Hist grandfather, vThos. Harrisori, was for years -the Clerk of the Superior Court oJL Camden county;' -Jt. whence he emigrated to Princess' Anne county t HONHUGH GORDON iMlLLER The Brilliant Southern Orator, K His has been a meteoric career, - H was an orator born.r He was graduated at his; birth in Nature's ;schooU magna cunibwde ?in he - class : of thesilvbjr tongued, . and whett he; flrstjsaw .. the light thfe? hbneyibees'if Hymettus ctereonnis; aut.iipsi.. just entered the harvest fild, of fame, with his sickle in his liandjand his .Work just begun. Here;is;;a partial record of -'. his youthful : achievements in the gilded arena of popular 'oratory; ;- -' "Hugh Gordon ?. Miller; a .brilliant young attorney-at-law,' pf. .Norfolk Virr gtnia, whose portrait apepars .on the opposite page, .has" had!armeteoric-c- reer in the field of national politics,, be ing wall known and frequently enter tained in most of the large cities. of the United States. ': i' ' '" ' "Mn' Miller was born in Norfolk, MarchSS.andis- a son of M. S. and Fannfe Virginia' (Harrison) Miller, of North Carolina. ; His ancestors were Scotch-Irish, and on his mother's side he is descended directly from the Gor don -clan of Scotland,, so celebrated in history. i?'He"was: ;a : mere youth (when he moved " to' Princess, Anne county, VlrginiaVwith his ; parents j and .there resided for sbveral yearsi; .' He return ed to Norfolk in 1882, after taking a course:of study under a private in strufctbr.f A f ew years later; he' entered the law office of George Mcintosh arid for twoft years i pursuee studyof aiw. ?While Judge : Brooke was'on the bench he appointed Mri MiAer deputy clerkof ;the courts ; and assigned 'him to duty In the - Corporation Court, Where he was given charge: of 'thS court proceedings.; i Judge Hanckel. was elec ed to succeed - Judge Brooke, and Mr. Miller.- was continued in his old posi tion. March 20, 1896, he was admitted" to the bar in; Norfolk, arid at brice -resigned the office of deputy - clerk of court and'entered upon the active prac tice of his profession, since that time he hasbeen almost constantly engaged in important litigation. - As t a , trial lawyer he hasbeen .especially success ful. ; In 1896 he received the nomina tion of the Reform - party, which ' was then in power, for the office of city attorney,;-but declined it. At the.i No vember vtem, 1898V ae: was ; admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of i the, JtedStotes bT?pecIar order of the court, being perhaps the young est advocate who ever appearedbefore theaust, trfeunA merit in the ca' He also probabFy case the United fitatiupremejCoart by Tiiuuilmous consent exuded the mighiloml.- menttn ahe jcase. He its also probably. the youngest gnani'ever,"htrMby ,tbAtyfX&'P - V. H j occasion a noUhie effort; His reputa- lines, and his namehas been frequent He has. ajways token an active part In nolltical affairs! being independerit lo cally and a; Republicanon. iiaUonal i. sues.'.? (One of Mr. Miller's jnost no table speeches was made for' the Re fom 'element of the 'City Admtoistra- 4tfc. at the dcy -c.w-jr at?the;Lcadesy Oiiuzic in: J uaaiu MPl.fWf,Wf1 4eE.Al:M folk, on April 11, 1900; in a joint debate with.; Judge East. . The. speech has since r been ; published in. pamphlet form), Be stumped v the : State : WithJ Senator Henderson, f 95 McKinley . and Bound money in l89C;, also W the Con: gressibnalv!can?p-,ia"bf 189 and the gubernatorial cmpiign of .1902.'; For sometime hZns bpen Assistant United States Att'; cy, although he keeps his private of Ar -j; and cares for his : en- ciw iua use, o.- tteuujr uieruoer 01 une lawjflrc of MilfefCeman,: -"Mr. , MUler. bears a nationar.Tepu tation r an orator since his; celebrated tour of .the Northern and Eastern cities for McKinley. aad Roosevelt in 190Qr He ; was." recegnized as one of , Qe na- 'i Rides .filling aogreat manyjofJthe most inportant assignments, , made : by- the Ilepublican National Committee, spoke f f ZX?-. j Jointly on .various occasions with Sec-grandson- of. that ; -t0TO tt t n. 3tary o: -ri. : Jacob Gould . Schurman. . of the ii :7i, t tr niuppme vommission ; ana presi dent Cornell ;niveriOHbnlJas, M. Beck, First Assistant Attorney Gen eral! of the United States; Hon.; John K. Richards, Solicitor; General ; ; Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, Hon. Murat Hal stead, Admiral Schley,' Mr. Fairchiid, and others of national reputation.' v.. These are . the : descendants ,.bf the Albemarle: section of North Carolina, the oaken cradle in which its infancy was rocked, a people always jealous of their rights and ready to maintain them, a people whose" annals extorted from the historian, Bancroft, the kind ly sentiment," "who; ever; wishes tode termine the capacity of man for self governmentshould; study r the annals of the early settlers' bfNbgth; Carolina" for words nf Rimilar TrpTvii p-i S How true : thepatrIotic ieclaration oi uaston- ;ijooK abroad roughout the land and see North. Carolina's sons contending 'manfully for the palm of honor and distinction," and hew appli : cable " to the . Albemarle 1 section For recruiting ground of brf oi (! ' ihfr , jrUfMi0 Scattefed sons ;;frome'to;Wa5li tonjln the West and in all. the . States w ytfPV. -wy.Mytg. WhrttMa ReiJublicariiticfcet arid Lucius Gar- uprightness v ftndy, boriM-tv, wiia yearning love to theif; bid mother arid she, ever .watchful of her twanderers, hispsthera toosomin,,;a! Jbrid embrace;She Joto her grandsons- as .well .'as; her' sons, and, 'rejoices with hon.orTand;distinction,. and weeps with them in all their troubles for trouble isthe lot of humanity. ; ' ;r; ; Therefore, the Albemarlbs section welcomes the pious visitation of-her two grandsons last week and the , Tar Heel is proW to be the mouthpiece of their appreciation. , It sends them Cor dial , greeting and : hearty good Wishes for their health;happiness prosperity arid continued honor in the home -of their adoption, and begs' them to come again-and jstey 'longer.; sb that we may accord them . such, a demonstration as is due to their honor and becoming ,to m- ' . . ?v '. -! -..ftS ; i l.' i' -tM'il' Their kindred, the Halsteads, ; the Pierces and the .Richardsons, are Well and doing well, and will be encouraged in their good, work by the pious visita tion of their distinguished connections; Since v the above was written ; it has been, our .. good fortune ; to read ; an address, delivered , by Gordon '.Mil ler at the , Fifteenth , ; Annual Dinner Of the Republican ; Club, of .the; City of New jYork' in ... celebrating the an niversary; of. the birthday of Abra ham , Lincoln , It v was delivered Feb raary 12thV,i901. ;:The subject as signed ; him was the -;"New:.. South," the coriventional subject ;assigned;to speakers ". from , the , South ' and which" Henry Grady, of Georgia, had .illus trated some vyears y' before i :;?; t... We, deem ourself fortunate in see ing this speech, as ;it affords uk an opportunity of forming our ;own ; opin ion of "this young . grandson ; of the old. Nortlr-State, ' . What we said, before was tiie judgment of others, and while Wje. gave full credit to their testinlOny we .weie purious . to put; our f hands ; upon; his matchlesst gift, of speech, and. see him face to face ; through the. searchlight of printer's ; inkTr ; - .-i:,: f(J ,; We have come, seen.. and Jeen;canr: vinced. We , have J.read . his-' great speech at the Lincoln banquet. In New j York);ln190Jand wef itthe ; genuine 'coinage iof Nature's ..mi ! stamped: with the image: and juper Bcriptibni of . a born orator, gifted alike with the burning-words of oratory and ;rtwe iiiies thought J orU o? When- tha speechj was! delivered he was only .years of age. j . He.waa pre ceded y men, j veterans .the-jpqst-, prandial lines of fpeech veterane who efjeirA-f3pnf jyL jyews :p pro j v jiuumc f-nww- wrs signed Jhfs-row tM.field to, whicli1Henry, Grady jswnng .bis scytne-ne wew.vitn,-anto field he .handled his. sickle, so : demy oyer;ito tlds friends new f laureis vWith which they i CTowned- .him anewv- We wish '-; wo ;: could i publish ?the entire speech for the admiration of -his fel low countrymen., of his old ancestral hme. But ; w'e , must-', content , ourself witk, one or two chips and. leaved tijem to ' claim this ' grandson of the Albe marle and, of Camden county as their Fl FliTllirJS OF ; iPopocE To bo Held in Eleven States. U Next Tuesdav Several f: '.New t York,': Oct. 27.- Elections wfil ( be held in eleven ; States Tuesday, No yember 3d. Full State ! tickets are to be.Tvoted for, in Massachusetts; Rhode ' islahdiMaryland,lOhlcia Iowa -and f Mississippi while in New-, York, Pennsylvania,; 'Nebraska and Colorado 'a justice of the' upper courts; ' regents of ; the " State "University or minor- State Officers are to be chosen- " Muhicipais officials :are"tolbb. . in - Greater New, York,"1 San - Fraricisea -and Salt Lake ;i::;'" : . The Prbhibltionists haVe' a ticket InC :al.lfthefBtates;.ceptCoIclrMcv1, the -Socialists in -all except Nebraska aid " Colorado"; the Populists inr two- States ; --Iowa and Colorado: and the Socialist . Labor party" in three, New' York, -Mas- .; tsachusetts and Ohio; ; Fuslbn;jwas"ef7 fectedm' only one stater-JNeprasKa- though ..the eRpublicans of New York: endorsed the Democratic nominee) far Judge bf the Court of Appeals. , '- -s.,' i The - most; interesting contests fa the East are the i State elections , in ' Maryland and Rhode" Island and the municipal and xsoimty contests to' New York ;- City.; , ''r ; V '"; In' Maryland the" offices of Governor.; Comptroller and Attorney ' General wffl be filled. Edwin Mansfield, " the Demo- ; cratic candidate,' is fighting "the tssoe ,T with . Stevenson ' A: fWUliams; the Itte- publicari nomined;'! i &(Xt ' ; rjrhe offices of -Governor, iLde'utenantJ , GoyeiirSecrOtarStet ' in Rhode Island, mhof TV Colt heads ' Tin thepresent X eaecutiye, occupies the same position ori ; the Pemocratie tick0ifLaGary the plans of. the Republicans by securing ari'elecbn, L alttoutt-'evejotte- Euc- cessful -'candidate; wa'aepublican. 'dx&AtMiruiga , fp,i; , ,lllT, State ticketi'V All the Republican canr didates were renominated 'Bates, be- ; sides ' having been -vernor this year,' v was' previously" Lieutenant Governor , for three-years. Gaston, the Demo-Cratic-.carididate, -was last year's nomi- , nee-fbrGbvernor." ' f ' Pennsylvania ; will- elect .'an 5 Auditor . General Treasurer arid two' Judges of the Superior Court.- v 2" ; ' 1 Ti Court of -Appeals Judge is the onjy " State office to; be '.voted for in New v v; York. .' Judge'' Dennis O'Brien, Jemq crat, will have therace to. himself, ; havhigs beeri endbrsed by 'the' Repnb-' -licans.' The Interest in New York wfrt center in the municipal and" county contests .in -Manhattan -! and 1 King's boroughs, Seth' 'Low,3 the present mayor,-1 is' the Fusion; candidate, -and , Geo. BVMcClellari the -'Democratic nomtoeeJ- 'Ex-Depiity Police Cknnmls sioner (Devery is ah independent candidate-, 'and the Prohibitionists' and . Socialists have also made norixiriatlons ,The : residt ! will - be watched 1 with 1 In- , terest,', owing';tb( tlier plit" between . , Tammany and1 tie; Brooklyn organixa tion, headed by ' McLaughlii The Brooklyn'' organization i endorsed ' Me- , Clellan;1 but' bolted the nominations of , Grout for Comptroller 'and Fornes for President pf the Boards of 'Aldermen. -GroUt' and Fbrnes were :'the i Pnston ; candidate's, ; but . . on - account of their endorsement"' by ; the Deznocrats their " names;-were-taken oft the Fusion tick- ,et' and those of Henrlch and McGulre 'Substituted!;! ' . ' In, theWest the liveliest contest is in Ohio,'Where Myron T, Herrick arid . ' Tom J Johnson,'-' both ; of Cleveland, , are the leaders ori the Republican and, Democratic ; tickets,and - Marcus Hariria' and 7 John . H. Clark are strug- . gling forineriibers of the,' Legislajture, '( .wh'ichWlll:.-eIect:1Jnited-' States; Sea-, atorV-ff; ; . ! In'Iowa, Albeirt B. Cnmriiins is mak-, ing;his second racefor Governor; his '-. opponent . being Jeremiah ' Bv: BalUvai '.-. Who; is depending cm .the Democrats . TJM5,; IUC X-UPUUSL8 BaVWg 'UlClf l'WA 1 isjtate:.;tkfltet:ln;Ae I, Governor :Beck)uua is seeking:'' , 4 eloction lii kentnckythe :aepnDlic&a candidate . bigf. llc-rris 1 B. 'Belknap, . ucans' nc? ny rotSef bpDosition fcartv having put 1 tickets mthe field.? ) justice -of ;tbiStrpreme Ckmif Tte' t Baraes tb DernwVana rpop fusing o John DSuinvan.;!.TwGf lie- gentr offthe StaternlTCrs a fbcbb'ciMsei -In Colorado the Democrats' made 'ti straight fc nomination "otiJudge bf the Supremer Court; the: Popullrts -putting up one of their own party.- ''- : i The 'fight ; for 5 municipal rrbrirJ - San Fnmcisco: and Salt Lake,' partlcni larly the former, is very warm.:; " Gossip ia civilized assassination. VVift: ri''?i- Xr?? ;:,;.--.zt ,; .' - f,:..' '- v..' ; : f-;- " ,y t
The Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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