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COLLECTOR DANCY INTER
VIEWED. Collector Dancy was recently ii
terviewed ia New York fey a re
porter of the Sun, which interview
was. published in the issue of Mon
day laat. It is in striking and com
mendable contrast to the rattle-brain
stuff that'- has been published by
souie'-of the Northern papers and to
the speeches madjMJy som of the
.jioorroeii w those Northern indigna
tion meetings. He throws the blame
for the disturbance in this city, suc
ceeding tho election, on Manly,
who, she s tys, had been advised by
I him -and other leading negroes to
retract the offensive article which
was the. cause of the trouble, and
had protriised to do so but yielded to
other influence and failed to keep;
I his promise. When asked if the
Manly article was endorsed by the
colored people of theState he replied:
'It was not On the contrary, it
I was openly condemned the moment
it appeared by the thinking people of
race in tne state, lhe (Jounty
IRe public in Executive committee of
Ne Hanover county, which commit
tee is composed almost entirely or
colored men, mt at once and unanim
Duly condemned the utterances I
with others urged Manly to apologize
forth utterances and suspend his
paper for a time He Was otherwise
adris -d and the folly of his course was
disclosed as events followed
"It vs the best cmp tivu document
that the D mocratic party had. and
th y us-d it to splendid advantage.
Ina fact is that the thin kin? colo-ei
tnHn -if ad verse to harsh criticism of
(he whif people of the South, because
ho real good has ever come of it To
Critici 'ir wo tie n is always regard
fed as an intolerable offence by wh im
loevt-r committed. M oily c rnmitted
r grave blunder, for whicn th
whojn race in the State Was held
Inrgelv responsible. I never regretted
.nything so much in my life. It
lid us more harm than anything
tse possih'y. cou'd. Hitherto the rela
nns bet Teen the whites and
lacks of my State had been most cor
lal and amicible. The friendship be
ween them had been more Dro
ounca tnan in any other state in
e .-soutn. ine recent outbreak was
e first that had occurred in the
ite for many years. Why, as long
seveuty hve years ago a colored
an, a graduate of Princeton, by the
me ot (Jhavis, conducted a school
North Carolina, where the sons of
e mostdi&Linff'uished white men and
tesnun of the State were students
where they were prepared by this
loreu man for matriculation into
e State University. Harvard, Prince
a, and Yale. He was as much
ought of as any man in the state.
urfng slavery,limes in parts of the
te colored men and women were
? h t to read and write The late Dr.
Pnce preached in the ladimr
bite churches of the State, addressed
rge audiences made up Of both sexes
ia races, and was respected by black
id white alike. I cannot believe
at the recent most regrettable affair
ecipitated by Manly, will tend to
ar the past pleasant relationship for
ny great length or time.
We have nojloubt that the better
ss of colored people condemned
at .slander, especially after they
alized its full import and the
est it was having, but unfortu
tny'iW them some of their min
terial bodies, and therefore pre
mably representative of the better
lements of the race, endorsed the
aper after the slander appeared,
nt later said that they did not in
end to endorse the slander. Some
f them who participated in the
meetings that endorsed the paper as
the "organ' and defended of the
negro race" in this State, afterwards
sai&they did so without being fully
aware of what they were doing or
voting unnn. not havinir Rp.en or
read the offensive article.
Possibly this may be so, and that
he ministers and other church rep
eseniative8 who voted to sustain
organ" did not intend to vote
pproval of the s'ander which gave
organ notoriety; but the mistake
ey made was in permitting them
Ivbb to be put in a position where
ey seemed to endorse the slander
vell as the paper, and in not tak-1
g the first opportunity to une-
cally condemn it. Perhaps
lacked the moral courage to
tain what was apparently writ-
defence of their race, al-
ugh it Mm written only in de
lce ravishers and in extenua-
)n of the crime of rane.
It,
H mav ha rhat Uonltr himoslf At A
p realize tbefull significance
" scone of wkt u t, .;i
1 aw the indignation it aroused. If
-"uia have recalled it fchn hA
pubtl
aa would have done bo. hnt
e he found that ha was nnf. in
v hrtJn. . .
"J Pen' ne perhaps enioved
"notoriety it gave him. The fact
. . a m ml
was about aa much scared the
day that article appeared when he
began to hear the echoes from it, as
he was the day or night he made
his exit for parts unknown.
Manly blundered, blundered fear
fully, when he wrote that insane
slander; the preachers and other
colored church representatives blun
dered when they indirectly, if not
directly, endorsed it, and John C.
Dancy blundered when he did not
condemn it in his speeches, as he
condemns it in this interview, and
says he condemned it when he and
other negroes advised Manly to re
tract it and temporarily suspend the
publication of his paper. '
He says"it was the best cam
paign document the Democrats had,
a&d they used it to splendid advan
tage." It was a good "Campaign
document;" there is no doubt of
that, and it was used to good ad
vantage, too; there is no donbt of
that, and it seems to us that men
who are as shrewd as John G. Dancy
is should at once have comprehend
ed the effect of such an article and
proceeded at once to nullify that
effect by repudiating the artiqje and
the fool writer. This was done, it
is true, in a formal Sort of a way by
the Republican county committee,
but every one realized that this was
simply for politics, and the repudia
tion went no further. Not a single
representative Republican in the
State, nor a representative Repub
lican body of any kind, condemned
it. Collector Dancy made, many
speeches in the State, the general
tone of which was conservative
and commendable, but no where,
as far as we remember, did
he condemn that article, when even
from a political standpoint that was
the thing for him to have done. As
a representative colored man, and a
representative Republican, he would
have done himself credit and his
party a service by repudiating the
offensive article and its writer, which
he could have consistently done
when he says he privately so strongly
disapproved of what Manly wrote.
If he had privately approved it he
could not, of course, have publicly
condemned it,. but having privately
condemned it he conld with the
greatest propriety have publicly
and vigorously denounced it and
the writer.
This he failed to do, either from
lack of moral courage to seem to be
putting himself in opposition to a
man who claimed that he was de
fending his race, or from some other
reason; hut he failed to strike when
he should have struck, and missed
his opportunity. He struck Manly
too late. There is no more compari
son between Manly and Dancy than
there is between a mole and an ele
phant, and the surprising thing in
this whole business is that the mole
should have been permitted tempo
rarily to occupy the pdsition of
spokesman and leader when his
gabble was so disastrous.
QUALIFIED SUFFRAGE.
A Washington dispatch reports
that the commission which Presi
dent McKinley sent to Hawaii to
study the conditions there and re
port on the kind of government to
be adopted for the islands have
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agreed upon a repoi t, recommend
ing a regular territorial form of gov
ernment, with a governor a legisla
ture, and a delegate in Congress
The legislature will consist of two
houses, elected by the qualified vo
ters, but a property and educational
qualification will be necessary to
entitle one to vote for members of
the upper house. The object of
this, is, of course, to disfranchise
the mass of the natives, who have
neither property nor education.
Why is this done? Simply to pro
tect tbe interests of the handful of
Americans-who live and have inter
ests in those islands, and were the
promoters of the "revolution" which
overturned the monarchy and estab
lished the so-called Republic. Hav
ing annexed the islands which they
captured from the monarchy, of
course we are expected to give them
a "stable" government acceptable
to the gentlemen who turned them
over to us, and a stable government
means one in which they will be on
top and with which the nut-brown
former subjects of the dusky queen
Lil will have very little to do.
We are not going to find fault
with that mode of proceeding, for if
this Gov ernment assumes the respon
sibilitv of giving a government to
those people it should be such a one
as will be in keep ng with tbe civili
I zation and enlightenment of the age
and not one that would soon become
a prey to the semi-savage that never
knew anything about government.
It gives a rather rode jostling, how
ever, to the theory of the gentlemen
(which theory is now being so
much aired by the Republican jour
nals which discuss recent events in
the South), who contend that "all
men are created free aud equal,"
and have certain inalienable rights,
one of those rights being the unre
stricted right of suffrage. That
theory evidently does not apply to
u.waii
W
, They take the further are to
guard agaiogt the islands coming
under Japanese or Chinese do
minion through the instrumentality
of the ballot box by denying the
franchise to Japanese or Chinese.
A similar problem will be present
ed as to Porto Rico, which, like
Hawaii, will doubtless be kept un
der a territorial form of govern
ment with restricted franchise to
prevent the government from fall
ing into the hands of the natives,
who are not much better qualified
for self-government, as we under
stand it, than the yinple-Tmndect
Bemi-savages of Hawaii are.
And after these will come the
Philippines, when we tackle a prob
lem that the statesmen may worry
their wits over. They will not be
"annexed" as Hawaii was, but ceded
or gobbled, as Porto Rico
was, and being conquered terri
tory may not be deemed entitled to
the same consideration that
annexed territory is. But "right
here comes the hitch. We have,
througk our representatives on
these islands, had seme sort of an
understanding with the representa
tives of the people of those islands,
who co-operated with oar military
forces in the operations carried on
their against the Spaniards. If we
do not recognize these obligations,
then we must govern the new ac
quisitions without any reference to
the desires of their people; if we
recognize these obligations, then we
must concede to their people some
voice in their own government, and
what kind of a voice that will be
will be the question.
With the many tribes of mixed
bloods, semi-savage and savage,
among the 7,000,000 or more people
who inhabit those thousand or
twelve hundred islands, it would be
absurd to talk of giving them even
such a restricted form of tern tonal
government as is recommended for
Hawaii. Assuming sovereignty over
them we assume the responsibility of
giving them some kind of stable gov
ernment, and unless we depart from
our traditions and the fundamental
principles of our government we
must give them a government in
which they will have some voice, and
that means restricted, and in their
case, a very much restricted suffrage.
Why? The only reason that will 01
can be offered is because they art
not qualified for self-government.
Suppose we admit that this is a
good reason, should it not apply
with equal force to the States of thu
Union where the suffrage question
has become a perplexing problem?
The very men who are clamoring 1
most for territorial expansion draw
the line when it comes to conferring
unqualified suffrage on the inhabi
tants of the new acquisitions, but
when the white people of the
Southern States, to protect them
selves from incompetent rule by
ignorant and unqualified blacks, re
strict suffrage they condemn the
act as a violation of constitutional
rights and an ignoring of the prin
ciple that "all men are born free
and equal." If they approve of
withholding the ballot from the
people of the territory acquired
from Spain, on tbe ground that it is
not good for them, to have it, why
do they insist on the right of the
negroes . of the South to exercise it
unrestricted when they are as a
mass no better qualified for its ex
ercise than the natives of Hawaii
or of the Philippines are?
The reason which justifies such
action in those acquisitions justifies
it the more in the South, forthe
interests in the South to be" pro
tected are greater and there is more
at peril from unrestricted suffrage
than there is in the Pacific posses
sions, and surely the people of the
South who , are interested in good
government should not oe con
demned for taking the same precau
tions to secure it that the United
States Government does to secure it
in the newly acquired territory.
CURRENCY REFORM.
The people of the United States
need not look to the short session of
this Congress nor. to the next Con
gress, whether an extra session be
called or not, for any such currency
reform as the masses of tbe people
need. If anything at all be done it
will be to put the currency question
in a worse condition than it now is
The boast is now being confidently
I made by the advocates of the gold
standard that when Congress does
come to deal with that question it
will declare unequivocally for the
gold standard, and that will most
assuredly not be in the interest of
the masses, hut in the interest of the
men who control the gold currency
of the world and the gold supplies.
It will practically declare gold the
only full legal tender money and
thus further demonetize siver, which,
in the language of the late 0. H.
i r
Dookery, is "the poor man's money.
It may be incidentally remarked
in this connection that the gold
standard men in the North played a
very clever and a very shrewd game
in the late elections and won, pos
sibly without their game being sus
pected,17 They were apprehensive of
losing Congressmen, and perhaps
enough of them to give the Demo
crats control of the next House of
Representatives. They made a fight
to hold the House of Representa
tives, but they made a harder fight
without seeming to do so to carry
Northern Legislatures in States
where Senators are to be elected
and they succeeded so well that they
carried every one, with the excep
tion, we think, ox one, so that every
Northern State with the exception
of this one will after 1901 be repre
sented by Republican Senators.
They made their hardest and best
organized fight on State Legislatures
while the Democrats made their
hardest fight on Congressmen.
Both won, but the Repub
licans A won the most sub
stantial victory, for they won the
Senate-for the next six years at least
and thereby made impossible any
financial legislation that they do not
approve, whatever the political com
plexion of the House of Representa
tives may be in the meantime even
if the Democrats should succeed in
electing a successor to Mr. McKin-
ey. That's why we say they played
k very shrewd and a very clever
game and they deserve credit, for it
was well planned and a great vic
tory.
It i.s much easier for them to hold
in hand and control tho majority of
a body of ninety members who hold
their seats for six years and are not
respons ble directly to the people
than to hold in hand a majority of a
body composed of three hundred and
fifty-six members who hold their
seats for only t wv years and are di
rectly responsible to the people.
They knew this and hence they
planned and worked to secure con
trol of the Senate, which they now
have. Without that they would not
feel at ease, for conditions may be
'Such within two years, that the finan
cial issue may be the paramount one
in the next Presidential cam-
paign, and the demand for
more currency be so imper
ative that it could not be ignored
ind then with a Senate dabtful they
night lose their grip and the people
win. This may stm be tne case as
far as the demand for more currency
goes, but while they control the
Senate they can ignore it -as they
have heretofore ignored it by con
trolling the House of Representa-
ives or by having a President in
sympathy with them. This does
lot hold out any very encouraging
prospect for the kind of currency re
form the people desire, and tfftre is
little probability of their getting it.
We are told that the only kind of
currency reform needed is to more
definitely fcx the status of gold so
that there; may be no doubt as to
that, and therefore we must have a
positive declaration for the gold
standard, so positive that there will
be no room for different interpreta
tions; in other words, that gold s
to be, if it is not so considered now,
the only real money in this country.
They didn't have the nerve to do
this before, for they were -playing a
double same with the people in the
last Presidential campaign, and it
was necessary to deceive the people
to save their President. They have
the lower, house of Congress for two
years now, the President for two
years and the Senate for six years,
and they feel that they can afford
to be brave and even candid enough
to declare for the gold standard
that they didn't dare to declare
openly for two years ago.
They tell us that we do not need.
any currency reform except, per
haps, to retire the greenbacks; that
we have money enough, if not too
much, ahd to illustrate point to the
millions idle in Eastern banks, to
the great surplus in tbe United
States Treasury vaults, aid; to the
fact that our money-lenders are
sending money to London to be
loaned, there being a greater de
mand there for it than there is in
this country.
There may be as much money as
they say there is but that money is
not in circulation; it is locked up in
vaults, and only so much of
goes out as there is an absolute
and imperative demand for. Money
is no more abundant in the country
at large than ' it was two years ago
when the scarcity of money was the
powerful inspiration in the vigorous
fight that was made for free silver.
There may be hundreds of millions
locked up in the banks of the money
centers, but this no more means an
abundance of money for the country
than the millions of bushels o
wheat stored in Western grain
centers means an abundance o
bread for the toiling millions. Be
fore money can become abundant in
the true sense there must be some
way of taking it from the locked
vaults and distributing it in the
channels of trade. Before bread
can become abundant there must be
some way of taking the wheat from
the grain centers and distributing it
so that it may be converted into
bread for the people. How the
money is to be distributed is the
question. Congress controlled as
it will be will not provide the way
and the way must be found .by the
people ol the States which are suf
fering from a scarcity of money.
AH OPEN STATEMENT.
During the past campaign we had
occasion to refer to "Prof." Isaac
H. Smith, colored, of Newborn, who
declined to surrender his grip on
the 95 per cent, stock that the col
ored brother held in the Republican
party "joint stock company" of
Craven county and come down as a
candidate for the Legislature at the
dictation of the 5 per cent, white
stock holders. Isaac stuck, was
elected and will go to Raleigh as
one of the solons who are to make
our laws.
Since the election, and especially
since the late episode in this city,
Isaac has been doing some thinking
and sends the result in the follow
ing "open statement" to the New
bern Journal: -
"I have studied for tewnty years
from an ingeuious, logical philosophi
cal standpoint, the appearance of God
in nature, the course pursued, the
deferential, loving care and respected
protection, the white men of the earth
give to their fair women."
'I have decided that on this line the
white men make their appearance on
the scene as gods. "
"Do you know, or has it occurred
to you, that this is the first lesson- for
a Christian, an intelligent, civic citi
zen who claims to represent and. re
flect the image of God to learn V
"Then, who ever fell in Wilming
ton, upholding a pure and an unadul
terated womanhood, fell in the arms
of Jesus.
"1 It is true that the Manly edi
torial was slanderous against the
women of the gods.
"2. It is equally true that the col
ored ministers of Wilmington e-red
religiously and otherwise when they
approved of and endorsed the said
slanderous editorial.
3. However, it is erratif vine to
earn through the press that when the
gods put their government in opera
tion, that through and by it, ample
and adequate protection is now being
given the men, women and children
of my race. .
"In tbe course of things, it is ap
proved of by the law of nature govern
ing the stupendous -sun, moon and
s'ars, that had the colored ministers of
Wilmington passed resolutions con
demning tbe slanderous editorial, I do
not believe that there would have been
cause for the shedding of one drop of
blood, nor a single life lost in the re
cent race trouble in Wilmington, N. C.
This one act on the part of the men
of God would have moulded an en
tirely different sentiment; hence a dif
fereut feeling, and therefore a different
result.
"I hope this open statement may do
some good in the future.
Signed "Is a a - O. SMITH,
"Newbern, N. O."
This is gotten up in somewhat
unique style, but there is a good
deal of hard sense in it all the same.
Andrew Carhflfeie wants to know
why the President does not speak
out and declare his policy as to ex
pansion. Simply because he never
had any policy. He didn't know
what to say about it until 4ie "heard
from the people." He concluded
from his swing ronnd last fall that
the people of the West wanted to
expand and therefore be is now an
expansionst. If the people should de
clare in favor of contraction he
would begin to retracts That's his
policy. He doesn't lead, he follows,
or thinks he follows, and some people
call that leading.
A steamer recently arrived at San
( Francisco, a part of the cargo of
which consisted of 10,000 feet of
red wood lumber, for shipment
East. The pieces were fourteen to
twenty feet long, and none of them
less than five feet wide, and not a
knot or a flaw of any kind in it.
They grow some timber out n that
country.
CUBA THEIR DESTINATION.
Battery I, Sixth Artillery, Spent Several
' Hours in the City Yesterday. !
Left via A. C. L
Battery I, Sixth artillery, came up
from Fort Caswell yesterday after
noon and left at 7 o'clock on a special
A C. L. train for Savannah, where, as
previously stated in the Star, they
will go into camp until ordered to em
bark with the Seventh Army Corps for
Cuba.
The battery comprises two hundred
men and is under command of Lieu
tenant Timberlake. They spent sev
eral hours in the city, most of the
time down at the A C. L. depot.
About 6 o'clock a lunch was served,
consisting of canned goods and coffee.
The coffee (fifty gallons) was furnished
by the Bonitz Hotel.
Tbe special train on which the bat
tery left consisted, of six passeng r
coaches and two baggage cajrs. There
were quite a number ot people at
depot to see the sldiers off. Many of
the men are from Massachusetts and
other Northern States. They have
been stationed at Fort Caswell only a
few months.
There was Trouble at Fort Caswell.
News was. received here yesterday
of a considerable row which occurred
at Fort Caswell Thanksgiving day be
tween soldiers and a squad of about
30 negro laborers who were working
on the fortifications and grounds. It
seemsithat several of the soldiers were
near the, laborers1 camp and .became
involved in a row with them. One of
the soldiers by the name of Sullivan
was very badly cut and is now in the
hospital. The soldiers were very
much enraged at the conduct of the
laborers and it became necessary
for Lieutenant Timberlake to place a
guard around their camp to protect
them from the soldiers.
Crude turpentine advanced
yesterday to $1.80 per barrel for hard,
$8.00 for dip and $$.00 virgin.
DISCOVERED YESTERDAY.
Body of Cspt. Ward Recovered Coro
ner's Jnry Exonerates Steamer Buck's
Crew of Criminal Negligence.
The body of Captain E. L. Ward, of
the sharpie Leah, who was drowned as
the result of a collision of his boat
with the tug Buck, on Tuesday morn
ing November 15th, was recovered
yesterday by some rivermen who were
on a flit down the river. The body
was found floating in the - water near
the middle of the stream. ;
The coroner was notified of the find
and a jury composed of Capt W. P.
Oldham, W. C. VonGlahn, E. W.
Hewlett, L. W. Bates, J. E Robinson
and J. T. Howe was empanelled to
determine whether or not the deceased
came to his death by the criminal set
or default of some person ' ! or persons
unknown, as alleged in an affidavit
filed with the coroner to this effect by
Mr. Thos J. Gore, mate of the Leah
After inquiring into the facte and
circumstances of the death, from a
view of the corpse and of all testi
mony to be procured, the jury, ren
dered their verdict as follows:
"That the deceased, E L Ward,
came to his death by accidental
drowning.1' v
The body was identified as that of
Captain Ward by Messrs, J. T. Bat
son and J. O. Grimes, who made oath
to this effect before the jury.
Evidence was submitted to the jury
by Col ley Reynolds, deck hand; J. A
, Peoples, engineer; Edwin W. Sawyer
and Captain G. C. Hewlett, all of the
Buck, which proved conclusively that
there was no criminal action or negli
gence on the part of any of the crew
of that boat in tbe collision which oc
curred. Testimony of Mr. Gore.
Mr. Joseph Gore, of the Leah, testi
fied that he and Captain Ward left
Ward and Grimes landing about 1
o'clock on Monday evening, Novem
ber 14th, on the ebb tide making down
Town Creek. When at the mouth
of the creek they hoisted sail, bat
about 9 o'clock they dropped anchor
just above the Dram Tree, where they
remained at anchor until early Tues
day morning, when they weighed
anchor and hoisted sail, with no fog
or no smoke. They proceeded on to
Wilmington, making a tack over to
the westward, another back to the
eastward and another back to the
westward, passing a barge that wa
anchored in the stream. On the third
eastern tack he saw the tug Buck com
ing toward them and they continued
their course to the eastward, when
the tug struck the stern of their
sharpie, which threw: the ster
of tne snarpie down tne river
Just before the collision Captain
Ward hailed Captain Hewlett and
told him to look out. He said he
could not testify whether Captain
Ward jumped overboard, or was
thrown by the shock of the collision.
When he saw him, he' was out of
reach of line or pole. The tug round
ed to with the hope of rescuing him,
but it " was too late. Says he does not
recollect telling Mr. C. M. Kelly that
the. steamer was not responsible for
the accident, but that he might have
said so.
The body was taken in charge by
Mr. W. E. Topp, the undertaker, and
was yesterday afternoon shipped to
Town Creek.
FLEECED
A COUNTRY
BOY.
Wilmington Toughs Made Him
Drank
Then Took What He Had.
f A boy who is here from the country
was relating his troubles at the City
Hall yesterday. Wednesday night he
fell in with two of Wilmington's
tough citizens, who are probably bet
ter known to the police' than to any
one else, and he wound up in a com
plete drunk, brought about, he said,
by the encouragement of his two city
acquaintances. The names of his
companions he gave as John Odam
and W. Or. Hawkins, both of whom
are in the lock-up, charged with rob
t upon tbe affidavit of the aforesaid
country boy, who asks that his name
be withheld. The case seems pretty
clear, as the articles he alleges were
taken from him, a watch,! pistol and
some money, were found in the pos
session of Odam and Hawkins, when
they were arrested.
The case will be tried by the Mayor
at 10 o'clock this morn i n s.
Quiet Thanksgiving Observance. '
Thanksgiving Day was very quietly
but very generally" observed in Wil
mington yesterday. Business was
practically suspended throughout the
city and stores and other places of
business save some special establish
ments closed during almost the entire
day. The special services at the vari
ous churches were well attended and!
the pastors delivered appropriate ser
mons. Of course after the 11 o'clock
services the mecca of everybody was
their respective homes or some friend's
home to partake of Thanksgiving din
ner. There were services at several of
the churches at night and all these
were attended bv large crowds.
As to Caswell Soldiers.
Chief Parmele is in receipt of a let
ter from Lieutenant E. J. Timber
lake, in command of the post at Fort
Caswell, instructing him to arrest any
of the Caswell boys, whom he finds in
the city without passports or official
permits from some officer at the Fort.
Lieutenant Timberlake requests that
such be put on the first boat for South
port, and made to return to their poet.
He strongly denounces the recent
drunkenness of some of the members
of Battery I, while on a leave of ab
sence here, and suggests that the sol
dier now in custody here be made to
work out his fine and soste.
E COCOANUT. i
If You Want o 'Achieve Success in the
Cotton Trade Yea Have Got to
Hustle For It
The Charleston Nem and Courier
sent one of its men here to find out
why Wilmington is getting so much
South Carolina cotton, that ought,
they think, gravitate to Charleston.
In a letter to the paper its correspon
dent says:
It is a very common thing to hear
some one say that the reason Wilming
ton receives so much South Carolina
cotton is because of a supposed alliance
between Sprunt. who is the largest
dealer there, and the Atlant'e Coast
Line system. Such has been the im
pression of a great many business
men, a great many newspaper people
and a great many rivals of Wilming
ton in the cotton market.
After a series of inquiries and after
talking with men who have had the
impression that Sprunt enjoyed special
railroad advantages, it is given as a
calm and deliberate opinion that Mr.
Sprunt stands on exactly the same
ground that any other shipper does,
aud that the cotton men in Charleston
can get exactly the tame advantage
that Sprunt, enjoys, which are equal
advantages- to auyoue else and no
special favors. The cotton business,
as every other business in these, day
of competition, has to be done on a
small margin, and if a few cents a bale
can be made, and ten - times as much
cotton is handled on a small margin
as with a greater margin, it can be ap-
Ereciated that it would be better to
andle the bulk and multiply the
profit. This is one of the secrets of
success in Wilmington.
EXECUTION AT SOUTJiPORT.
John Brown, Negro, Hanged for Criminal
Assault on a White Woman He
Confessed the Crime.
Special Star TeUgram.
SOTJTHPOBT, N. C, Nov. 26. Th-'
negro John Brooks, who was convict
ed at the last term of court of criminal
assault on a white woman named Mrs
M. A. Chairs, on a lonely farm near
Shallotte, was hung to day at noon by
Sheriff Walker. The execution took
place in a temporary enclosure at the
rear of tbe jil- Brooks denied the
crime up to last Thursday, when he
made a complete confession to Jailor
Holden. He ascended the stairs coolly.
smoking a cigar, and on the scaff Id
again confessed his guilt and said he
hoped his awful end would be a warn
ing to all wrong-doers. After a short
prayer by a colored preacher, Brooks
shook hands with the sheriff and the
latter 's deputies and at 12:05 P. M. the
drop fell, and thirteen minutes later
Dr. Watson pronounced Brooks dead.
Death resulted by strangulation. The
execution was private, but Sheriff
Walker admitted about one hundred
men to witness the negro's fearful
fate.
FOR USE OF NAVAL RESERVES
The Auxiliary Cruiser Hornet to be Sent
to North Carolina Gov . Russell to
Designate the Port.
a y
Special Star Telegram.
Washington, November 26. In re
sponse to a request from the govern
ment, the Secretary of the Navy to
day decided to send the auxiliary
cruiser Hornet to a port on the coast
of North Carolina, for the use of the
Naval " Reserves of that State. The
Hornet was one of the best of the
auxiliary naval forces during the war
with Spain and made a bright record.
The vessel is now at Norfolk and
awaits directions from the Governor
of North Carolina as to what port he
wishes the vessel to proceed to.
A letter was mailed to-day, giving
the decision of the secretary, and ten
dering the use of the Hornet to the
State of North Carolina until she is
needed in the service of the United
States,
C. P. & Y. V. Railway.
The Baltimore Herald of Thursday
says:
"Word was received in this city yes
terday that Commissioner Martin had
set December 29 at noon and Fayette
ville, N. C , as the place for the sa'e
of the Cape Fear dc Yadkin Valley
Kauway under tne order ot Judge
Simon ton.
The chief bidders will probably be
the Baltimore and New York commit
tees of the bondholders, who re pre
sent the Seaboard Air Line and the
Southern Railway, respectively. The
former committee has made an agree
ment to lease the road to the Seaboard
for a guarantee of 4 per cent, interest
on the bonds and a part of tbe pre
ferred stock. It is understood that the
upset price of the road is $2,250,000.
They Have Hosts of Friends Here.
For the information of their friends
in this city the Stab gives below a
few of the appointments, for the pres
ent conference year of the Western
Carolina Conference of the Meth dist
E. Church, South, which has just
closed its annual session at Winston,
to-wit: y
Al inofAn IIavi Ian o rvr iTfKifrartVi 1ST T
ff UaSllMU) vuuvouw j VHUllU, vv . XJL
Creasy, D. D. ; Ashe ville, Central
Church, C. W, Byrd; Charlotte Dis
trict, S. B. Turrentine, Presiding El
der ; Charlotte, Try on Street Church,
H. F. Chrietzberg, D. D. ; Charlotte.
Trinity Church, F Siler ; Greensboro
District, F. H. Wood, P. E. ; Greens
boro, West Market Church, J. C
Bowe; Winston District, P. J. Carra
way, P. E.; Monroe District, W. M.
Bagby.
A poorhouse in Constantinople
has been made rich and proud by
the receipt of a hair from Ma-
hommed's beard, presented J)y a rich
women, although we rather suspect
the inmates would hae found more
real enjoyment and solid comfort
a good hunk of b:
THE MILK IN
WILL MAKE ANSWER MONDAY
Speculation Rife In Paris As to Accept-
nnce or Rejection of American Pro
posals Generally Believed
That Spain Will Yield.
By Cable to the Morning Star.
Paris, November 28. The Spanish
peace commission this evening does
not know what will be the terms of
the answer to the American tender of
$20,000,000 for a treaty session of the
Philippines. : Senor Montero Bios;'
president of the commission, will
himself write Spain's final reply, pre
sumably upon lines approved by the
Madrid government, but as yet he has
nOt formulated a sentence thereof.
Up to this evening the Madrid gov
ernment had instructed ite commis
sioners here to reject the United
Slates offers. Some tentative instruc
tions have been received from Mao rid,
but to-day Senor Montero Rio tele
graphed to Madrid for a construction
of them or a clearer light thereon, and
the commission is now awaiting a ie-
ply.
Spain will not ask for time beyond
Monday. She will then meet the Ameri- -
cans and make a conclusive reply.
Speculation continues rife here as to
the acceptance or refusal of the
American terms,, but a majority of
hose who are in any degree able, to
judge believe that Spain will yie d and :
the American commissioners expect
that a treaty wjll be signed.
Regarding tifte discussion of the so
called open-door policy i i the Philip-1
nines, the American peace commis
sioners understand thit it dots not
mean -free trade nor even low duties,
but that tbe Philippines, whatever i he
a riff r.t. s. shall be open to all trade
on equal terms.
The Philippine Islands will be ex
pected to yield sufficient revenue to
meet the expenses of its own admit. is
r.iti oi. and larcr sch dule of dm i i4le
goods may be established, or only a few
may b taxed. This consitu tea a qm s
ioo. wbich will b- rea.lred favorably
toother nations. Thus, tbe ships of
til nations will be permitted to envaire
in commerce throughout the archipel-
go. Tbis is in contradiction of the
U. S. inter die ion of coast trade
in furejgn bottoms, ai d may possibly
xtend to Cuba aud to Porto Rico.
The advantage to the United States
n the Philippines coasting trade lies
in the fact tnat Amrioau goods' will
only have one ocean to cross, while
the goods of other nations must cross
two oceans.
A Colony of the United States.
. . . t
The Philippine islands will be ad
ministered as a colony, and tbe oppos
ing argument against colonial govern
ment stands in Alaska. If the United
Slates, it is pointed out, have no right
to colonial possessions, then the United
States' title in Alaska is void.
Op an objection being made to the
varying tariff duties in the American
possessions, recurrence is made here
.to the treaty by Jefferson which per
mitted tbe Creek tribe of Indians,
while occupying United States terri
tory as a separate nation, to secure for
themselves, free of duty, goods from
Florida, then Spanish, or England or
elsewhere. -, - . v;
Snln Archipelago.
London, Nov. 26. Special dis
patches from Madrid say Senor Mon
tero Rios, the president of the Spanish
peace commission, has informed his
government that , the Americans de
mand a cession of tbe Sulu archi-
pelHgo. Further advices from Mad
rid say the Spanish cabinet has de
cided to instruct ite commissioners,
after the peace -treaty is signed, to
treat for a revision of the treaties, of
commerce existing before the war.
Ambassador White's Correspondence.
Berlin, Nov. 26 The United States
embassy has received a five hundred
word cipher dispatch from Judge Day,
president ot tne United states peace
commission at Paris, asking for the
confidential correspondence of the
United States ambassador here, Mr.
Andrew D White, from laat Summer,
as being of vital importance in the
peace negotiations. This correapon
dehce was known to Judge Day when
he was secretary of state The corres
pondence was immediately forwarded
to Paris. r
AGUINALDO'S POSITION.!
Maintains His Right to Detnla as Pris
oners Civilians and Clericals Who
Have Fought Against Him.
By Cable to the Mornlnsr Star.
Manila, P. , November 26. Agui -naldo,
the insurgent chief, has ad
dressed a second communication to
Major General OtU, the American
military commander, on the subject
of the Spanish prisoners in the hands
of the insurgents. He has declined to
release the clericals and civilians, add
ing that both carried arms against the
insurgents. Agui naldo then.
lien. (Jus to tbe 1 cal papers.
li-med since the-tnsurrection, for
fu table proof" of his assertion that the
clericals were the ''most active and
vengeful agents in sacrificing the
lives and honor of innocent natives."
Continuing, Aguinaldo quotes the
international rul- of reprisal, claim
ing the right to detain tbe prisoners
in the hope of causing Spain "to
liberate the Filipinos and cease tortur
ing and shooting natives whose only
crime bas been tbe love of liberty. '
As to his saying, in a former letter,
that international law must recede
before the just wishes of the people,
Aguinaldo asserts that he meant under
the existing circumstances recognized
laws must "accede to the wishes of
those fighting for the recognition of
the bulk of said laws." The insurgent
leader also maintains his right to
detain the prisoners until the Vatican
recognizes the rights of the Filipino
clericals and ivilians or until tley
arc awuaugcu,
The United States transports Arizona
and Ohio have arrived here with
reinforcements.
GALE ON THE LAKES.
Numerous Disasters to
.Blinding Snow Storm
By Telegraph to the Morning Star,
j Chicago. November 26. The blind
ing snow, storm which accompanied
the northerly gale Friday night on
lakes Michigan and Superior proved
disastrous to shipping, In the Mani
toba passage, at the foot of lake Mich
igan, three wooden steamers and a
whaleback barge are ashore, is a dis
tance of fifty miles.
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