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The Weather Today: j r CAKOL?NA | Fair. The News and Observer. VOL. LII. NO. 38. Leads allMopth Carolina DaiMesinlewsandCireiiiatioß REPUBLICAN GUN!! TURNED Oil SMITH A Passionate Denunciation Rings in the House- SIBLEY IS HORRIFIED The Order to Make Samara Howling Wildfrnefs. NO MAN LIVES WHO CAN JUSTIFY THIS Williams of Mississippi Reminds Sibley That He Should Strike at the System Which Allows Smith to Carry Out Such Barbarities. (By the Associated Fre»s.) Washington, April 28.—Representative Sibley, (Pa.), created something - of a sensation in the House today during the g-eneral debate on the Agricultural Ap propriation Bill by severely denouncing General Jacob H. Smith for the orders he issued in the Samar campaign. Mr- Sibley’s speech was enthusiastically ap plauded by the Democrats and was re ceived with some evidence of approval on the Republican side. The speech was considered the most remarkable in that it came from a Republican, who left the Democratic party on the issue rais ed by the Spanish War and who has since been a* ardent supporter of ex pansion. Mr. Williams, Democrat.*, (Miss.), endorsed what Mr. Sibley had said. Mr. Sibley, (Republican, Pa.) said he had been an expansionist and defend ed the policy of the administration in the acquisition of the Philippines, that duty and honor justified our position there; that the commercial welfare of the nation demanded that we should conlrol that archipelago, which stands as the gateway to the Oriential world- He then continued: ’’Therefore, when I am compelled to read utterances contained in military orders that make the blood of man run told when I have heard the statements made that we were cruel in the conduct of that war, I have thoughth perhaps, the partisan was speaking. But when I have read, as I have within the past forty-eight hours, that a general wear ing the uniform of the army of the United States who stands under the shadow - of our flag, issue orders, not tc ccnciliate a province, but to leave it a howling wilderness and to kill all above ten years of age. then it seems to me that humanity must have marched back ward for eighteen centuries and that Herod again appears. I have read of Tirrour, the Tartar- I have read of Achilles, I have read of the Saracen sccurage, but I thank God that, since the tragic scene on Calvary, it has taken eighteen centuries to produce a Smith. I have read of the water cure. I be lieve that was exaggerated. Can any man whose blood pounds in his pulses, any man who has read his Bible, or who has been reared at the knee of a Chris tian woman, justify the perpetuation of such cruelties upon another man who wears the guise and the image of h-s Creator? And yet. we hear this man attempting to justify acts by which the men are pumped so full of water to nearly drown them and tlmn brought hack to life by thumping them over the stomach with the butts of miusketts. That is not civilization, that the not Christianizing the world. I am thankful that these are sporadic cases. * They wih never p?*sify any race of human beings on this earth by first drowning them and then bringing them to life with the butt of a musket; and against that, as a member upon this side of the chamber, against that as a man who bt longs, I hope not alone, to the Re publican ranks, but to the whole broth erhood of man the wide world round. I wan the members of this House on this side of the chamber and that, to voice tht ir protest, and aga'nst all such meas ures. (Applause.) A friend of mine t-aid a few minutes ago: *Oh, you had better wait and hear his defense.’ [ hope the President of the United States will have the courage upon what the man admits, to discharge him dishonor ably from the service that lie has dis graced. (Applause.) He admits that he issued the order to leave the province a, howling waste and a wilderness, and to kill all above ten years of age. the in nocent with the guilty. That mannever ought to be permitted to stay in the service of the United States until the sun goes down. He goes down in dis grace not alone to the party, but to every man who ever wore the uniform of the United States, and he is a bloc and a disgrace to our present civiliza tion. Wait and hear what his justifi cation may be. That man docs not live who can justify such orders. (Applause.) There is ro justification. I care not how adroitly his law’yers may frame their plea or how subtle their reasoning. The fact admitted by his own mouth that he is sued such orders is sufficient for the hope that there is the courage and the patriotism and the humanity and the Christianity at the other end of the ave nue that will not let him wear the Fed eral uniform twenty-four hours hence.” Mr- Williams. (Miss.), heartily ?n dorsed Mr. Sibley’s onslaught upon General Smith, whom he described as a ‘‘brute in uniform.” “But, I am a little agraid,” he continued, “that he does not strike the evil in the right quarter. It is the system which should bp struck at, not the man who unconsciously carries out the spirit of the system. Wherever there is a war of conquest against a w’eak and infrior colored people deeds of brutality naturally occur. The chief danger is not the injury to the weak race, but that the temptation to tyran ny will react upon the strong race and make brutes of its soldiers- For that reason such w r ars should be avoided. I agree with the gentleman from Penn sylvania that there can be o justifica tion for a civilized man to issue an or der to lay waste a whole country and kill everybody, including children over ten years of age.” Mr. Curtis. (Kan.), made a brief but fercent defense of General Funstan against the criticism to which he had been subjected. “The people of Kan sas,” he began, “are proud of the brave and daring record of gallant Fred Fun ston. (Applause on the Republican side.) He has been criticised here for an act which for daring of conception and execution ranks with the greatest feats of arms—he captured the new George Washington—Aguinaldo.” If another had aeomplished what Gen eral Funston did. he said, the Demo crats would have made him their can didate for President. Tour of Oxford Orphans. A chapter of orphans from the Oxford Orphan Asylum starts upon a concert tour May 6th. The children will fill ap po’ntinents first in the eastern section of the State and, after a short rest at Oxford, will enter upon their western trip. These concerts always secure the hearty support of the people of North Carolina, and the secret of their suc cess is not hard to find. The entertain ments are always meritorious. They are bright, pure and interesting. Those who hear the boys and girls for the first time marvel at their attainments. Then too, our people are in sympathy with the great cause the children repre sent. They know that there is no more important work than the care and train ing of destitute, homeless boys and girls. Over tw’o hundred and fifty orphan children are bring well provided for and carefully trained in the Oxford Orphan Asylum today. They have been gathered together from every part of North Car olina. The only conditions for admission to the institution are that the children are destitute orphans and that they have a sound mind and body. Neither de nominational affiliation or preference of parents nor the fact that the father was not a Mason, is considered in passing upon an application for the admission of a child. The State of North Carolina and the good people in general are as sisting the Masons in the maintenance of a work of such magnitude. The in stitution deserves the assistance of our whole people. On the eve of the concert tour this year, it gives us pleasure to copy the following from the “Orphans’ Friend and Masonic Journal:” “We have a three-fold purpose in sending these children to visit the dif ferent towns: “First. To give an evening of pleasure to those who come to hear them. It has been and shall be our desire to give a concert free from all impurities, yet filled with humor, simple, yet enter taining. No one can attend one of these' concerts and see a erow’d of bright-eyed children whose lives might have been left in darkness, without feeling, “I’m glad I came!’ But apart from all charity, we try to give a concert which, of itself, will delight any audience. “Second. To bring the people into closer touch with their institution. One who never sees and seldom hears of the institution which he is helping to sup port cannot feel as deep interest in it as if he knew more and heard more about it. We believe the next best thing to seeing the asylum is seeing its repre sentatives. We do not select the bright est or best children for the class, but the children who will represent the in mates of the asylum, and, when you see the sixteen intelligent boys and girls of the class, remember that we have 240 more just like them. Can anyone look upon these and remember that the Ox ford Orphan Asylum has made them what they are, without feeling that they are glad they have invested a part of teir earnings in the lives of homeless chil dren? “Third. To aid in the support of the institution. During the past year we received, clear of the expense, over $2,500 from these tours. An equal amount could not possibly have been raised with as little expense and trouble to friends and brethren. It came from all sections of the State. No one had to sacrifice, no one missed the small amount charged for admission, and yet the asylum received enough to support foi ty children for a year. More people are reached and more people are inter ested in this manner than could be reached by correspondence or agents. And often have boys and girls secured good homes by having met with good, Christian people while out with the class.” Death of Hon, J. Sterling Morton. (By the Associated Press.) Chicago April 27.—1i0n. J. Sterling oMrtoo former Secretary of Agricultittre. died this afternoon at the home of his son. Mark Morton, at Lake Forest, 111. Last November M/r. Morton contracted a severe cold while speaking at the stock show in Chicago. An attack of grip fol lowed. and from this he never entirely recovered. A w r eek ago he suffered a stroke of apoplexy. The immediate cause of his leath was inflammation of the übronchial arteries. RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 20, 1902. HEW ENGLAND IS SECESSION'S HOME Chanp Clark Thanks Burrows For Locating It. GRANT BANQJET SPEECH The Border States During the Great Civil War. WHERE THE STRIFE RAGED MOST CRUIELLY And Fratricidal Fury Drove Men to Deeds of Madness. States That Furnished Num bers of Splendid Troops for Both Armies, (By the Associated Press.) New York, April 26. —The anniversary of Gen. U. S. Grant’s birthday was cele brated tonight by the members and guests of the Grand Monument Associa tion with a banquet given at the Wal dorf-Astoria. Prominent military men and national politicians from all sections of the country w’ere present. Maj. Gen. Gran ville M. Dodge acted as toastmaster. Toasts were responded to as follows: “Grant,” James E. Watson; “Victory," Senator J. C. Burrows; “The Border States During the Civil War,” Champ Clark, and “Let Us Have Peace,” Gen. Thomas H. Hubbard. Champ Clark, prefacing his speech, said: “I want to thank Senator Burrows for locating secession in this country. He has located it where it belonged, in New England and not in the South.” Continuing, he said in part: “It was easy to be a Union man irv Massachusetts. It was not profitable to be anything else. It was easy to be h. Confederate in North Carolina. It was not safe to be anything else. But in Kentucky, and the other border States, it was perilous to be the one thing or the other. Indeed, it w’as dan gerous to be neither and to sit on the fence. I remember an cld fellow from whom the Union raiders took one horse and the Confederate raiders another. So when a third parly of soldiers met him in the road and inquired whether he were a Union man or a rebel, being dubi ous as to their army affiliations, he an swered diplomatically ‘I am neither one nor the other and very little of that,’ and thereby lost his third and last horse to the Confederates disguised in blue uniforms.” The speaker then told how the men of the border divided on the issues of the war: “Neighbor against neighbor,” he said, “father against son, brother against brother, slave against master, and fre quently wife against hush nd; the fierce contention entered even into theology, and blotted out the friendships of a life time.” He sketched the character of the Ken tuckians, whom he characterized as na tural warriors, born on a soil sown with dragon’s teeth, and said that the men of Missouri, a Kentucky colony, had inher ited their eharacteritics. He told the story of the doctrine of “armed neutral ity,” which he declared was the most preposterous theory ever hatched in the brain of man. “It is generally assumed,” he said, “by the wiseacres who w’rite the histories that in the bordoc States the old, wealthy prominent slave-holding families all adhered to the Confederacy, and that only the poor, the obscure natives and the immigrants from the North stood by the old flag. This is a serious mistake. The great historic dominant family con nections divided. Prominent people wore the Confederate gray. Others just as prominent wore the Union blue.” He enumerated the family divisions on the war issue of the Breckinridges, Han sons, Clays and Crittendens and told of 1 the loyalty for Union of John Marshall Harlan, Lovell H. Rousseau and Benja min H. Bristow. “Harlan’s Tenth Kentucky Infantry,” said Mr. Clark, “had Col. Hayes for its commander after Judge Harlan resigned. In the matter of sw’earing, Hayes could have given pointers to ‘Our Army in Flanders.’ The chaplain of that regi ment was a Christian militant. At Chickamauga, Hayes ordered the chap- j lain to go to the rear among the wound- 1 ed where he belonged, but he flatly re THAT POLL TAX. ‘ * ♦ If YOU do not pay YOUR poll tax before the first day of May, YOU cannot vote. This law is as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persians. YOU will feel very cheap next November to be disfranchised because YOU failed to pay your poll tax Pay it today. fused to obey. On tho contrary, with the light of battle in his eyes, he rushed to where the fighting was the hottest and concluding that some cuss w’ords were necessary and being unwilling to cuss In the first person he proceeded to do it by proxy, shouting: ‘Boys, give ’em hell!— as Col. Hayes says.’ ” ‘‘lt is safe to say that had none of the great families, none of the slaveholders stood for the Union, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland would have seceded, and if they had gone with the South unanimous ly the Confederacy would have achieved its independence. This brings me to tho central idea of this speech—the main sact —of which I never think without anger and resentment, for I believe that justice should be done, even in writing history, though the heavens fall, and it is this: Population considered, Kentucky and Missouri sent more soldiers to the Civil War than any other States and re ceive less credit for it. They were splen did soldiers, too. Theodore Roosevelt says that by actual measurement the Kentucky Union soldiers were the finest speciments of physical manhood who were in the Federal armies; and when Jefferson Davis, himself a renowned sol dier, reviewed the army at Corinth, he declared Cockrell’s Missouri brigade to be the most magnificent soldiers his trained military eye had ever gazed upon. “It is said that figures will not lie, and here they are: To the Union armies Missouri contributed 109,111 soldiers, Kentucky 75,760, Maryland 46,638, Ten nessee 31,092 and West Virginia 32,068 — making a grand total of 294,669. Sup pose a case. Suppose that George H. Thomas had gone with his State, as P/1 his brothers in arms from Virginia did, and that when Pickett made his spec tacular charge at Gettysburg, Thomas had in the nick of time reinforced him with the 294,669 veteran Kentuckians, Missourians, Marylanders, West Vir ginians and Tennesseans then fighting in the Union grruies, can any human being fail to uderstand what would have been tflb result?” The speaker expressed the conviction that the declaration of Lincoln in his first inaugural address that he had no intention to interfere with slavery in the States where it already existed held the border States faithful to the Union. Tho speaker concluded his address by re lating a number of instances of daring, heroism and cruelty in the border State*. As to his own State lie said: “In Missouri the war was w’aged with unspeakable bitterness, sometimes with inhuman cruelty. It was fought by men in single combat, in squads, in com panies, in regiments, in great armies, in the open, in fortified towns, and in am bush, under the Stars and Stripes, under the Stars and Bars, and under the black flag. The arch fiend himself seems to have been on the field in person, inspir ing, directing, commanding.” FELL BETWEEN THE CARS Brakeman Nelson Dies From the Effect of In juries Received. (Special to News and Observer.) Salisbury, N. C., April 28. —A. W. Nel son, a brakeman on the yard of the Southern Railroad at Old Fort, was in jured last night and died from the effects of his injuries this morning at Barber’s Junction. He was stepping from the top of one freight car to another w’hcn the train suddenly pulled out, and he was thrown between the cars. His left leg was badly mashed, but he w’as not thought to be fatally hurt. He was put on the train and brought as far as Barber’s Junction, where he died. He w’as from Shelby and his body w’as sent tonight to his home via Charlotte. Lodges Combine to Build a Hall, (Special to News and Observer.) Washington, N. C., April 28.—The com bined lodges of this city has decided to have a central meeting hall and have se cured the hail to be built over the drug store of Dr. David T. Tayloe. For highway robbery Saturday night, Garfield Dunn, a young ’mulatto, is held in jail under two hundred dollars bond. He attacked another negro and only suc ceeded in securing three cents. Hon. T. B. Bailey For Judge. To the Editor: For some time the friends of Hon. T. B. Bailey has been urging him to become a candidate for judge of the Tenth Judicial district. In answer to a communication from his friends asking him to allow them to present his name to the convention, he says he will accept the nomination if tendered him. His habits, quali Beat ions and high character make him a strong candidate. He is too well known in the State to heefl any word of commendation at our hands. His friends will use all honorable means to secure his nomina tion from now until the nomination is made. JACOB STEWART. Mocksville, N. C., April 28. On the Diamond. * National League Games. (By the Associated Press.) New York, April 28. —Well-timed Hits and superior base running enabled the New Yorks to beat the Brooklyn today. Score: R. H E New York 0 1100402 1-9 15 2 Brooklyn 0 2000010 o—3 4 3 Batteries: Evans and Bowerman; Mc- Cann and Ahearn. Time 1:48. Umpire* Brown- Attendance 5.000. Philadelphia, April 2S. —Mularky's wildness in the fourth and seventh in nings caused Boston’s defeat by Phila delphia today. Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 o—l 12 2 Philadelphia ...0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 x—4 6 0 Batteries: Mulargy and Moran; lberg and Dooin. Time 1:50. Umpire. O’Day. Attendance 1,961. American League Games, Washington, April 28-—Although out batted by Washington, Philadelphia won , today's game by hitting opportunely, two home runs by M. Cross being chief ly responsible. Score: R H E Washington 21000040 2—9 14 2 Philadelphia ...0 30 2 20 0 2 3 —12 12 2 Batteries: Orth and Drill; Wiltz and Powers. Time 1:45. Umpire, Sheridan- Attendance 3,677. Chicago, April 28. —The locals were un able to solve Taylor’s swift delivery co day and were shut out. Score: , R II E 1 Chicago 0 0 000000 o—o 5 l ; Cleveland .. .0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o—2 6 3 Batteries: Piatt, Katoll and Sulli | van; Taylor and Beis. Time 1:35. Um pires, Johnstone and Connolly. Attend ance 1,600- Baltimore, Md., April 28. —The Balti more American League team could do nothing with Young here this atfernoon. j Score: RUE Baltimore 0 0110001 o—30 —3 7 4 Boston 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 o—7 9 1 Batteries: McGinnit.v and Robinson: Young and Criger- Time 145. Umpire, O’Laushlin. Attendance 3.838. The SouthernJLeague. Atlanta 8; Nashville 5-At Birmingham 3; Chattanooga 1. Shreveport 3; Little Rock 4. New Orleans 6; Memphis 11. FIRE IN HIGH POINT People There do Not Think Ray Edmnndson at Thomasville an Incendiary (Special to News and Observer.) High Point, N. C., April 28.—Yester day morning at 5 o’clock fire was dis covered in the grocery store of a Mr. Richardson in the factory settlement, next to the plant of the Victor Chair Company. It was first seen by a man living close by, but thinking it was a light from a lamp or jantern he went back to bed. Soon afterwards the store was in flames which spread to the of fice and oil house of the Victor Chair Company destroying all three buildings. The factory building was in danger for sometime. It is thought that the store was either set afire or the fire- was caused by carelessness, as it originated among some banana crates underneath the building. Wescott Robinson, Esq., returned from Thomasville Saturday night, where he represented the defendant Raymond Edmondson, who is accused of firing his barber shop. People here who knew Edmondson do not think him guilty and believe it will be proven when matters have cooled down to some extent. A large audience was present yester day morning at tho M. E. church to hear Rev. N. L. Atkins, pastor of First M. E. church at Salisbury, who is as sistmg Rev. J. E. Gay in a series of meetings here. Mr. Atkins is one of the ablest preachers in the Western N. C. Conference and his sermon in the morning was exceptionally good. In the afternoon at 3 o’clock he conducted a special service for the children at the Baptist church. SCBEME TO AID PRITCHARD. Republicans in Buncombe Are Anxious to Fuse With Democrats (Special to the News and Observer.) Asheville, N. C., April 28.—The idea of a fusion ticket composed of Republi cans and Democrats, has taken a strong liold of Republicans here, and there is good reason to believe that the Repub lican party will be for it. It is pro posed to divide county and legislative offices, but all tho legislative ticket is to be pledged to the re-election of Sen ator Pritchard. SOL BMITH RUSSELL DEAD. The Famous Actor Passes Away of Perpetual Hiccough (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 28.—501. Smith Rus sell, the actor, died at the Richmond Hotel, in this city, at 2;30 o’clock this af ternoon of perpetual hiccough. Mr. Rus sell has been ill for some time from this malady but during the past few days the disease took a serious turn and since early morning the end had been hourly expected. Those present at the bedside of the veteran actor were Mrs. Russell, Miss L. Alice Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Berger and Edward I. Rosenfelt. Mr. Russell was 54 years of, age. The deceased will be buried in ' Rock Creek Cemetery, near this city. j PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE MODERN HEROD IN IRE PHILIPPINES Smith's Cruel Order Arouses Mr. Simmons. H HAS BUT ONE PARALLEL Herod’s Command to Kill the Male Children of Judea. LET US RELEASE THE PHILIPPINES As a Possession of the United States They Can Brine: us Only Misfortune and Disas ter. Their Cheap Labor Threatens the South. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 28. —After a brief discussion today the Senate agreed to the House amendments to the Oleomar garine Bill as passed by the Senate. The measure now goes to the President for Mr. Teller (Col.) to amend the measure so as to levy a tax of ten per cent of the capital or assets upon any butter trust that might be formed, but it was defeated, 25 to 28. He referred to the treatment of Cuba by the United States, and said lie had his signature. An effort was made by no disposition to discuss the motives of the Republican party in pursuing one line of policy toward Cuba, and an op posite policy toward the Philippines. He believed such discussion would be un profitable. In his judgment there was no justification in morals, in public policy or in the condition of the two peoples for the differentiation in their treatment. There was no reason in his mind why independence should be granted to the Cubans and denied to the Filipinos s He said it evidently was the purpose of the Republican party to retain the Philippine Islands permanently, but ho did not believe the subject had been settled finally by the American people. Personally he had no doubt that the islands ought to be turned over to their inhabitants, as he felt that they were entirely capable of establishing a proper government, although they might not be capable of establishing and maintaining such a government as ours. The Filipinos by heredity, the thought, were not fitted for our kind of govern ment. He said that the negroes in this country had been afforded ample oppor tunity to participate in our form of government, “yet,” said he, “those who are most familiar with the negroe’s con dition know today that he is little bet ter prepared for the discharge of the duties of citizenship than he was in the beginning.” The negro suffered, he said, from a defect of heredity. Mr. Simmons discussed the stories of t)je “water cure” of the burning of towns and of reconcentration. He de clared that \there was no doubt as to the truthfulness of the charges against the American army of cruelty, inhumanity and barbarity. In fact, said he, it was now organized cruelty and barbarity, and not merely isolated instances of torture. He referred to the order issued by Gen eral Smith to make the Island of Samar a “howling wilderness,” and to slay all male inhabitants over ten years of age. “No order recorded in all history,” he declared, “paralleled that order, except that of Herod the King, when he com manded that all tlje male children w’ho w’ere in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof from two years and under should be slain in order that he might the more securely compass the death of Him, of whom it was said He came to he the king of the Jews, the Christ and Savior of mankind.” f “I feel,” he continued, “like calling upon the great, brave and humane man now in the White House to probe these things to the bottom and at least, to make them odious.” / In discussing the agricultural situation in the Philippine, Mr. Simmons confessed to a feeling of alarm for his own sec tion of the country over the prospect of the admission 'to the United States of the products of the islands, for with the cheap labor there those products could be produced in the Philippines more cheaply than in this country, In conclusion, Mr. Simmons protested against the holding of the Philippine Islands as a possession of the. United States, declaring that if realized tho islands could bring to this country only disaster and misfortune. PROPOSED ROAD TO ASHEVILLE The Rutherfordton, Hickorynut Gap and Ashe vilte the Centre of Interest (Special to the News and Observer.) Asheville, N. C., April 28.—The pros pect of the railroad from Rutherford on to Asheville has aroused much public interest and Jiscussion. The name of this railway is the “Rutherfordton, Hick crynut Gap and Asheville Railroad.” It was organized in Asheville last fall un der a charter guaranteed by the Legis lature of 1901. Its president is Gen. Theo F. Davidson and its incorporators are Judge M. H. Justtice, M. O. Dickinson, Jason Ashworth and J. S. Williams. Those who have gotten the rights of way are Jason Ashworth, R. A. Morgan and P O. Merrill all of Fair View. Ghas. F. Canes a well known financier of Balti more is considerably interested iu the road.