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HARMONY DINNERS AND
THE DISCORD THEY CREATE
There Can Alway be Harmony Among Democrats
Who Have the Purposes Jefferson Had,
Declares Bryan.
HE OUTLINES BASIS OF TRUE IIARMONV
Senator Carmack and Mr/
Shepard Speak.
CARMACK SPEAKS AS SOME SEER OF OLD
If We Would Perpetuete This Repub
lic, He Cries, We Must Preserve Un
broken the Walls Our Fathers Rear
ed and Stand Fast by the Constitu
tion as by the Ark of the Covenant
of the Living God.
(By the Associated Press.)
Boston, July 24.—There were three
notable speeches delivered before the
New England Democratic League at the
annual dinner held at Nantasket Beach
today. Mayor Patrick A. Collins, of
Boston, presided, and addresses were
made by Wm. Jennings Bryan, Edward
M. Shepard and Senator Carmack, of
Tennessee. Mr. Bryan responded to the
toast, “The Basis of Harmony.” He
sa id:
“In view of numerous harmonv din
ners, and the discord they have erected,
it may not be out of place to consider
the basis of harmony. The word •har
mony' is euphonious, and the idea which
it conveys is a delightful one.
How it soothes the ear and ealis up vis
ions of peace and love and joy-. Harmony,
whether among the heavenly bodies
v hose movements make the music of the
spheres or among the bodies terrestrial
with their conflicting interests and vary
ing moods, who can resist its claims or
dispute its sway? Harmony is but a
synonym for order, and is not the result
of chance, hut a product of inexorable
law. The musician must learn the scale
and properly arrange the notes, or har
mony, no matter how earnestly wooed,
can never be won.
“Harmony in government Is likewise
the result of fixed md unchangeable
rules. Jefferson shifts two of these
rules —namely, absolute acquiescence in
the will of the majority and frequent
(lections—the second aids the first by
giving hope of a remedy from present
ills, however gricvcu3. If lie were living
today hTs observation would probably sug
gest a third rule, namely, the ascertain
ment of the will of the methods so direct,
so fair and so honest that minority
cannot doubt that that will has been
actually expr ssed.
“Jefferson also laid down the rules by
which, and hv which alone, real harmony
can be secured within a party. I say
real harmony, for that harmony cannot
ho considered worthy of the name which,
like the harmony temporarily existing be
tween the confidence man and his vic
tim. is purposely employed for deception
and injury.
THE TWO PARTIES DEFINED.
The great founder of the Democratic
party whose profound philosophy s'o.und
ed all the depths of human nature and
measured the height and breadth of hu
man government, not long before the end
of his eventful life, said in a letter to
Mr. Lee, that there were but two per
manent parties, the aristocratic and the
Democratic; that these two ex
isted in every country, and that where
there was freedom to think, speak and
write, these parties would become ap
parent. With the aristocratic party he
classed ‘these who fear and distrust the
people and wish to draw all power from
them into the hands of the higher
classes.’ With the Democratic party he
classed ‘those who identify themselves
with the people, have confidence in them,
cherish and consider them as the most
honest and safe, though not the most 1
wise, depository of the public interests.’ i
Every well informed student of history
w ill recognize this distinction. In every
community you can draw a lino sepa
rating the aristocrat from the Democrat.
It will not be a perpendicular line, nor
will it boa horizontal one; it will not |
separate those of illustrious lineage ;
from those of humble birth: it will not 1
separate the rich from the poor; it will I
not separate the educated from the un- :
educated; it will not be along lines of,
vocation or occupation; hut it will sepa
rate those ‘with the tastes, spirit, as
sumption and traditions of the aristo
cracy’ from those who ‘believe in a gov
ernment controlled by the people and j
favor political and legal equality.’
“Jefferson was born of refined and well- j
10-do parents: he was even rich for one
of that period, and he was educated far i
above the most of his associates; he was |
a lawyer and his social connections were j
f avorablc to aristocratic ideas, but he j
was a Democrat. He believed in the
brotherhood of man: he asked for no
privileges that could not be granted to
all; he claimed no rights that all did
not enjoy, and he sought for himself no
governmental care that he did not de
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mand for others. He believed in the
rule of the people, in their capacity for
self-government and in their right to the
control of their own affairs. He did not
doubt that they would make mistakes,
but he knew that they would bear pun
ishment for their own mistakes with
more complacency than they would en
dure punishment for the mistakes of
others, and he was certain that their
errors would be unintentional ones. He
knew that, as they found no profit in
bad laws, they wouAl strive to correct
them and would profit by experience.
He was a friend of everything that helped
the people, and the unrelenting foe of
everything that, injured them. He was
identified with the masses, and consider
ed that in so far as by inheritance or
by his own efforts he* possessed any ad
vantage over others he held that ad
vantage as a trustee for those less for
tunate. The people loved him because
he first loved them. He organizd a party
that has lived for more than a century,
and he so impressed his ideas upon the
party that no defeat, however over
whelming, has been able to crush its
spirit or disintegrate it.
A GREAT GULF BETWEEN THEM.
“There can always be harmony among
Democrats who have the purpose that
Jefferson had and are willing to employ
the methods that Jefferson employed.
There can always be harmony among
Democrats who believe in a government
of the people and are willing that all the
departments of the government shall be
by the people and for the benefit
of the people. Differences of the mind can
be reconciled: differences of purpose can
not. Between one who is at heart an
aristocrat and one who is in reality a
Democrat there is a great gulf fixed.
And, it may be added, among the aristo
crats there will be found the same divis
ion that exists among the beasts of
prey—some have the courage of the lion,
and others the cunning and treachery of
the fox, but they can hunt together if
their object is spoil, whether it be
avowed or concealed. Between those
really Democratic in purpose there can
be no personal or permanent alienation,
because having no ulterior motives they
are open to arguments and amenable to
reason; being honest in purpose, they
have confidence in the triumph of their
cause, and are content to employ honest
methods. They will neither conspire
against others nor against each other.
If they make mistakes in judgment, as
all are liable to do, they are not only
willing, but anxious to.correct their mis
takes. In politics, as in religion, there
is an essential difference between a
doubt of the head and a doubt of the
heart.
“It is impossible to secure harmony
between people of opposite sympathies
and it is a difficult thing to change a
man’s sympathies; it requires a political
regeneration to make a Democrat out
of an aristocrat. It is much easier task
to show a man that the principles he
has been advocating and the policies
which he has been supporting are aristo
cratic in their present effort or in their
tendencies. The Republican party of to
day is aristocratic in its policies and
pendencies for it is controlled by a few
in the interest of a few, but there are
many Republicans who remain with their
party only because they do not under
stand the change which has taken place
in that party within the last few years.
When the policy of a party is controlled
by its voters, then the party stands for
the will of the majority, but when the
party is dominated by a small minority
then the organization stands not for the
will of the majority, but for the will of
those who dominate it.
A PARTY LED BY THE NOSE.
There can be no doubt of the
Democratic instincts of a large
majority of the riiembers of the
Republican party, but that party tntav
is so controlled by organized wealth that
the rank and file of the party are not
consulted about the policies nor are the
interests of the rank and file considered
by the leaders. With the exception of
the tarjtr question the Republican party
has not in recent years honestly sub
mitted a single important issue to the
arbitrament of the ballot, or even to the
judgment of the members of its own
party. It has written ambiguous plat
forms and forced its policies through
Congress after elections. In 1596 it used
a promise of international bimentallism
to conceal its real purpose to fasten the
gold standard on the country. In 1900
it practiced the same deception jpn im
perialism and on tfte trust question.
Even within a month it has refused to
announce its purpose in regard to the
Philippines, and has put off until after
November the passage of the subsidy bill
and the consideration of the trust ques
tion. The leaders of the party show
their lack of vital faith in the doctrine
of self-government by their unwilling
ness to take the people of the country,
or even the voters of their own party,
into their confidence. The hope of the
Democratic party lies in bringing this
fact to the knowledge of those who have
RALKIGH. NOKTH CAROLINA. KRIDAY MORNING. JULY 25 1902.
been in the habit of voting the Repub
liacn ticket. One aristocratic p.uty in
the country is enough. Democratic suc
cess must he won, not by imitating the
Republican party, but by exposing it—
not by making the Democratic party
aristocratic, but by convincing the people
that it is really Democratic and can be
trusted to defend Democratic ideas and
to cultivate Democratic ideals. As there
are many in the Republican party whq_
have adhered to the party notwithstand
ing the change that the organization has
undergone, so, there are some who call
themselves Democrats who have them
selves undergone a change which has
alienated them’ from the Democratic
party, or from any party worthy of the
name.
“To attempt to patch up an apparent
harmony between those who are not in
sympathy with Democratic purposes is
not only a waste of time, but would
prove disastrous. The men who deserted
the party in 189(1 may be divided into two
classes. Those who left because they
understood the issue presented and those
who left because they did not under
stand the real nature of the contest.
Until the former are completely changed
in their sympathies they cannot return
to the party without injuring it. The
latter will be reconciled to the party
when they themselves become aware of
the real character of the life and death
struggle now being waged between
plutocracy, because the aristocracy of
today is one of wealth rather than of
1 irth, and it includes not only those who
have been alienated from the common
people by .the possession of great wealth,
but those who, although without wealth,
pander to it and moaeure all things by a
money standard. Organized wealth has
become ejp potent in governmental affairs
that some even now despair of applying
any effective remedy. But such under
estimate the patriotism of the people and
the strength of the public conscience.
The people have a remedy within their
ppwer. namely the ballot, and with It
they can and will right every wrong and
remedy every grievance.
STAND FIRM FOR PRINCIPLE.
The Democratic party must have a con
trolling purpose, unchanged by victory
or defeat; it must stand for that pur
pose at all times and everywhere, un
moved by threats of disaster and unin
fluenced by promise of temporary gain.
It must have a character, for character
is as essential in a party as it is in an
individual. No one will trust an unstable
man or one so without principle that his
position upon any moral question can
not be guessed in advance. Neither will
the people trust a party that is willing
to write into its platform today any
thing that promises to catch a few votes
or strike out of its platform tomorrow
anything that will alieDute a few votes.
Even if it desired to do so our party
ould not compete with the Republican
party in the use of money in campaigns
or in the deception or coercion of voters,
because large campaign funds can j|nly
be secured in return for the promise of
favoritism, and our people are not in a
[osition to coCrce. Our party must have
principles and proclaim them; it must
stand by them and defend them, relying
upon its faith in the righteousness of
those principles and upon its faith in
the intelligence and patriotism of the
neople.
“The struggle between human rights
on the one side and greed on the other
is an unending one. Our party must take
part in the struggle, but that struggle
cannot be permanently settled by this
generation or by any future one. As
the children of Israel, wandering in the
wilderness, could not store bread for
the morrow but were compelled to gather
manna each day, so the citizen finds it
impossible to rest upon the achievements
of yesterday, or to frame a government
that will run itself. He must labor to
day, tomorrow and while life lasts if he
would be secure. He must meet each
now problem and examine each new
proposition that is submitted to the
people, but in doing so he will employ
the same purposes and apply the same
general rules. He cannot tell what
temptations he may have or of itfhat
immediate gain he may have the promise
if he will but surrender his manhood
but he knows, if he is an upright man,
that he will endeavor to resist every
temptation, and he will determine to
forego every advantage that requires a
surrender of his manhood.
APPLY DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
“So with our party. We cannot tell
what issues we may have to meet; we
can only determine to meet them in a
Democratic spirit, to apply to them
Democratic principles and to take the
people's side always. In 1892 the para
mount issue was tariff reform and the
Democratic party boldly asserted its de
mand for a tariff for revenue only. It
fought the campaign and it won, but its
majority was so narrow that a few Sena
tors, disloyal to the party on this sub
ject, defeated the verdict of the people
rendered at the polls. But the failure of
the party to do all that it promised
would not have been so disastrous but
for the fact that the Wilson bill, un
satisfactory as it was to tariff reform
ers, had to bear the sfns of a Republi
can financial system which was support
ted by our administration against the
protest of an overwhelming majority of
the voters of the party. The defeat of
1894 was more disastrous than any that
the party has experienced since, and it
was due to the fact that the adminis
tration deserted the people on the money
question.' In 1898 the money question
had forged to the front, made paramount
not by the action of the majority of the
Democratic party, but by the attempt
of a minority of the party to aid the
Republican party to chain the country to
an appreciating dollar. Without aban
doning its position on the tariff question
the party met this issue and took the
side of the people. In spite of the de
sertion of many formerly conspicuous
in ' ts councils of the Democratic party
I oiled a million more votes than it had
ever polled before, and would have
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ARREST OF HARDING
HUD MRS, STAFFORD
Boarding the Boat at Norfolk
For Baltimore.
t
A DENIAL OF IDENTITY
Seaich of Their Trunks Renders This
of no Avail.
MR. STAFFORD LEAVES FOR NORFOLK
A Warrant Sworn Out Against Harding For
Kidnapping Mrs. Stafford and Requisi
tion Asked FiOm Cover 'or Aycock
on Governor of Virginia
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., July 24.—At five
o'clock this afternoon your correspondent
was wired by the Virginian-I’ilot that
the eloping couple, Mrs. John YV. Staf
ford and J. E. Harding, wore in Norfolk
and asking for instructions.
The matter was referred to Chief of
Police Scott, who immediately notified
Stafford. Upon consultation with the
State attorney he went before Magistrate
J. M. Wolfe and swore out a warrant
against Harding for “fraudulently and
unlawfully kidnapping and carrying out
of the state, one Ida Stafford, contrary
to the statutes in such cases made and
provided and against the peace and dig
nity of the State.” The warrant was for
warded to Governor Aycock tonight for
endorsement and a requisition on the
Governor of Virginia.
In the meantime a second telegram was
received saying the couple would leave
Norfolk at 7 o'clock tonight. Chief Scott,
when informed of this, telegraphed that
a reward was offered by Stafford and
sent an order cn Norfolk’s chief of police
to detain the party is possible.
The Virginian-Pilot published a column
telegraphic story of the elopement this
morning with the above result.
It will be a big legal battle as Hard
ing has about fifteen hundred dollars in
cash an 1 Stafford is -tenulnrd.
Later.—The parties were arrested at
8 o’clock while taking the boat for Bal
timore. They denied their identity, claim
ing to have come from Georgia. They
were held half an hour when an exami
nation of their trunks showed no mis
take had been made.
Norfolk telephone message from the
chief to me saying the parties fit the
published description exactly, and the
lady’s condition is unmistakable.
Greensboro’s chief of police left with
the husband for Norfolk tonight at
eleven.
Later: I have just seen Mr. Stafford,
who says he is going with the chief to
Norfolk and get his wife or send Harding
to the penitentiary. He does not seem
vindictive but appears dazed with grief.
I)R HENRY SMITH LECTURERS
Spiaks cn “dreamt of Inventors" at Summer
Schorl of Bouth
(By the Associated Press.)
Knoxville. Tenn., July 24.—The Sum
mer School of the South at the Univer
sity of Tennessee has but one week to
continue until the six weeks’ course is
completed. However, many men are ex
pected during that time. This morning
Henry Smith, of Davidson College, North
Carolina, lectured on “Some Dreams of
Inventors” and tonight he will speak on
“The Illectucal Advantages of the Inven
tions.”
This afternoon President B. C. Greg
ory lectured on “The Application of
F-robels Philosophy to Common Schools.”
There are now 1,922 teachers enrolled at
the summer school. They represent all
the Southern and many Northern States.
AUSTIN GETS FIVE YEARS-
He Gives Notico of an Appaal The Case Con
sumed Two rays
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheboro, N. C., vja Aberdeen, N. C.,
July 24.—The famous case of the State
against J. F. Austin, an ex-preacher,
charged with perjury consumed the time
of the court two days. Elijah Moffitt and
J. A. Spence, of Asheboro, were prose
cuting and J. T. Brittain. Judge ByDuir
and Judge Stevens defending.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty,
and the prisoner was sentenced to five
years on the roads. The defendant gave
notice of an appeal. The case was hotly
contested from beginning to end.
Two murder cases are continued until
next term.
BTRONO DENTPS THE CHARGE.
Jewels Pawned bv Him at May Yohe's Bequest
Tor Her Benefit. •
(By the Associated Press.)
London, July 24.—Putnam Bradlee
Strong, of New York, arrived in London
this afternoon with the St. Paul’s pas
sengers and went to a private West End
Hotel. Former Captain Strong, in con
versation with a representative of the
Associate Press this evening, said he had
pawned about $8,400 worth of May Yohe's
jewelry at her request and for her bene
fit after they returned from Japan and
that she had received the entire
ceeds from him at the time the jewels
wa re pawned.
“I have never had one dollar of May
Yohe’s money and no person knows it
better than she,” he continued. “The
money on which I am now travelling was
received from the sale of my library and
of tpis fact Maye’Yohe is also aware. I
have done many foolish and most unwise
things, but I have not been criminal.
“As to my future movements, I do not
think they should interest any one
greatly, but I will say that Ipurpose
living quietly and endeavoring to re
deem my good name.
“As to the story that I rifled her
safety deposit box, that is absurd on its
face. May Yohe never had any safety
deposit box that I know of, and if she
had one any banker could tell you that
without her authority I could never have
had access to it. I had one in my own
name at the Knickerbocker Trust C om
pany, which I suppose my family has
opened as I gave them full authority to
do so.”
FIRE AT HAW BERN-
Meadows’ Guano Factory and Other Buildings
in Flames.
(Special to News and Observer.)
New Bern, N. C., July 24. At 8:30
o’clock tonight an alarm of fire was
turned in from box 15. The guano fac
tory of E. 11. and J. A. Meadows was in
flames. There were also small fires at
Ellis’ shingle mill and Baugh’s ware
house. The firemen are fighting under
difficulty. A general alarm has been
turned in. It is a large fire and we can
not estimate the loss yet.
GAS PIPE FXPLODEB
A Man Blown Through a Plats Glass Window
Into the Street.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Fayetteville, N. C., July 24.—While
examining a leaking gas pipe at the Ho
tel Lafayette at 9 o’clock tonight, an ex
plosion occurred from a match held by a
negro porter, Dave Monroe, who was
blown through a plate glass door into the
street and fearfully burned and cut.
Mr. Matthews, the manager, who was
standing near, had his hair and mustache
burned and his eyes injured.
Strikers Bent to Jail.
(By the Associated Press.)
Parkersburg, W. Va., July 24.—Judge
Jackson rendered his decision in the
“Mother oJnes” contempt cases this
morning. The conclusion reached was
that all the defendants had violated the
injunction and were guilty of contempt
of court. Sentence in case of “Mother”
Jones was postponed; also as in the
cases of the four foreigners who cannot
speak Enlish, Thomas Haggerty was
given ninety days in jail and the other
five defendants sixty days.
Opinion supported the right of the
courts to use injunction and the right of
laborers to work when they wish to do
so without interference from organized
labor or any other source.
Judge Jackson, in his decision, said:
“What is an injunction Is it the ex
ercise of an arbitrary power by the
courts of this country, or is it a power
that has been recognized from a very
early date as one of the branches of ad
ministrative justice? I answer this
question by affirming that the ordinary
use of the writ of injunction is to pre
vent wrongs and injuries to persons and
their property, or to reinstate the right
of persons to their property when they
have been deprived of it. It is the most
, efficient, if not the only remedy, to stay
irreparable injury and to punish those
who disobey the order of a court grant
ing the writ.
“It is a mistaken idea to suppose that
. the courts of this country abuse this
writ. In my long experience on the
bench I cannot recall a single occasion
when at a court, whether Federal, in
State, ever abused in what is known as
strike questions.
“I do not question the right of the em
ployes of this company to quit work at
any time they desire to do so, unless
there is a contract relation between them
and the employer, which shoujd control
their right to quit. At the same time I
do not recognize the right of an employ
er to coerce the employes to continue
their work when they desire to quit.
“While I recognize the right for all
laborers to combine for the purpose of
protecting all their lawful rights, I do
not recognize the right of laborers to
conspire together to compel employes
h ho are not dissatisfied with their work
in the mines to lay down their picks and
quit their work without a just or proper
reason (thereof. merely to gratify a pro
f( ssional set of ‘agitators, organizers and
walking delegates' who roam all over the
country as agents for some combination
who are vampires that live and fatten on
the honest labor of the coal miners of the
country and who are busy-bodies, creat
ing dissatisfaction among a clasa of peo
ple who are quiet, well-disposed and
who do not want to be disturbed by the
unceasing agitation of this class of“peo
ple.
i he strong arm of the court of equity
is invoked in this ease, not to suppress
the right of the free speech, but to re
strain and inhibit these defendants
whose only purpose is to bring about
f rikes, by trying to coerce people who
are not dissatisfied with the terms of
their employment, which results in in
flicting injury and damage to their cm-
I lovers la well as the employes.
“The right of a citizen to labor for
wages that he is satisfied with Is a
right protected by law and is entitled to
the same protection as free speech and
should he better protested than the abuse
of fiee speech in which the organizers
and agitators indulge In trying to pro
duce strikes.’,’
The court then referred to “Mother”
Jones' speech near the Kinnlckkinnick
mines, saying her utterances were the
outgrowth of the sentiments of those who
believe in communism and anarchy.
“Tim evidence showed that “Mother”
Jones had called the miners slaves; suid
she did not care anything for injunctions,
that it wag a duty to urge the men at
work to lay down their tools, and advise
the men to strike: that the judge was
a hireling of the coal company and the
coal operators were all robbers. She
said in her speech to pay no attention
lo Judge Jackson or to the court; but
just make the miners lay down their
tcols and come out.
“It is true,” says the court, “that
‘Mother’ Jon°s denied some of the state
ments of the witnesses, but her denial
was not positive, but equivocal.”
The court, after reciting other arts
in violation of the injunction, concluded:
“I reach the conclusion that the de
fendants in this ease who served with
notice- of this Injunction have violated it,
and have treated with contempt the
court.
FOB BIVEBS AND HABBOBS
Estimates For Improvements Submitted to the
Chief of Engineers
(Tty the Associated Press.) %
Washington, July 24. —The Thief of
Engineers today received several annual
reports of officers In charge of river and
harbor improvements, making estimates
for the final year 1904. Lieut. Col. Chas.
J. Allen submits an estimate of $40,000
for the Rappahannock River.
Major James B. Quinn submits the fol
lowing for the Norfolk. Va., district:
Harbor at Norfolk and it’s approaches
$240,731: improvement of Hampton
Roads, Va., s2l. r >,000; Appamattox River,
Va., $156,000; harbor at Cape Charles
City, Va., $40,000.
Captain J. C. Sandford submits the
following for South Carolina:
Waccama and Little Pee Dee Rivers,
$25,500; Great Pee Dee River. $45,000;
Winyah Bay, $1601000; Wateree and
Congaree Rivers, $70,000; inland water
way between Charleston harbor and op
posite McClellansville, $50,000; Charles
ton harbor 26-foot project, SIOO,OOO, and
for 21-foot project $25,000.
FBOM NORFOLK TO CUBA
Stoannhip Lin* to be Established Marks Be
ginning of Close Trade Relations
(Tty the Associated Press.)
Norfolk. Va.. July 24.—A steamship
line between Norfolk and the Island of
Cuba is the latest enterprise for thfS
city and on August Ist a regular service
will be established.
The first schedule will be a monthly
one and this will be made shorter as the
business increases and warrants the
doubling or even the tripling of the ser
vice. A movement has been on foot for
some time past to establish trade rela
tion* between the Southern States and
the Islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, and
the Norfolk-Cuban line is the first to as
sume real proportions. Col. Wm. Ijarnb,
of Norfolk, is one of the promoters of the
enterprise.
Trappist Monastery Burned,
(By the Associated Press.)
Oka, Quebec, July 24.—The celebrated
Monastery of the Trappists here was
entirely destroyed by fire last night.
Loss $300,000, insurance SIOO,OOO. There
were ninety-seven monks in the monas
tery, all of whom escaped. Ten thous
and gallons of cider and 4,000 gallons of
wine were destroyed.
The fire, the origin of which is un
known, destroyed every vestige of the
magnificent building which required
many years to build. Two monks,
brother Soraphin, who was blind, and
another who was suffering from consump
tion, were rescued from the top floor by
priests at the risk of their lives. It is
feared they will die.
Five Armed Convicts Located.
(By the Associated Press.)
Pine Bluff, Ark., July 24.—Five con
victs who recently effected their escape
from the State prison at England, Ark.,
have been located in a building on a
plantation fifteen miles from this place.
It id understood that the men are well
supplied with arms and ammunition and
are prepared to make a desperate fight
before surrendering. Four o fthe con
victs are negroes.
Boyoott the American.
(By the Associated Press.)
Norfolk, Va.. July 24 —The National
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
today endorsed the position of the local
building and trades section, who are on
strike; endorsed the label of the Inter
national Cigar Makers Union and placed
a fine of $lO on any delegate using the
products of the American Tobacco Com
pany.
• The Lehigh Mining (oal. '
(ITy the Associated Press.)
Tamaqua, Ja., July 24.—The' Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company today it
sumed operations at it’s >Jo. 12 mine, one
of the largest collieries in the region.
The move of the company was unexpect
ed. This is the first large colliery to
resume. So tqr the striking men have
made no effort to c lose down the place.
It is believed other companies will now
make an effort to nvine coal.
Bisho A, Coke Smith,
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheville, N. C., July 24.—An attempt
is to be made by the Methodists of this
city to induce Bishop A. Coke Smith to
make his home in Asheville.
Three cricket teams have been or
ganized here and will play a series of
games, beginning Saturday.
Captain Spencer Cosby submits the
following for the Mobile, Ala., district:
Mobile harbor, $600,000; Black Warrior
River from Tuscaloosa to Daniels’ Creek,
$200,000; Warrior Tom and Bigbee Rivers,
$520,000; Bigbee River from mouth to
Demopolis, $280,000, Padcagoula River and
Horn Island harbor, Miss., $400,000.
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TWO LYNCHED AND
THE RACES IN ARMS
One Negro Shot to Death in
Station Hou^c.
ONE IS HANGED OUTSIDE
Other Lynchings Are Exp acted to
Follow Thesa.
NEGROES ARE LEAVING ON EVERY TRAIN
The Event Loading Up to These Tragedies Was
the Murder of Chief Bud Wilmith.
Womslsdorf is in a
Ftrm ;nt.
(By the Associated Press.)
Philippi, W. Va., July 24.—Two negroes
whose names are unknown, were lynched
at Womelsdorf, near here last night by
an angry mob numbering several hun
dred And their mutilated bodies left on
i the common.
The first victim was shot and killed in
the station house; the second was taken
to the park, where he was hanged andu
then riddled with bullets and cut to
pieces. Both whites and negroes *are en
raged and in arms.
A conflict is hourly expected. The
trouble grows out of murder of Chief Bud
Wilmoth on July 23rd. Several other ar
rests had been made and lynching seem
ed imminent on every side.
The dead blacks were caught near
Bellington and were locked up there,
officers fearing lynching if taken to
Elkins. Negroes are leaving on every
train.
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Fire at Clarkton.
(Special to News and Observer.)
1 Clarkton, N. C., July 24.—Monday night
Messrs. N. A. Currie & Bro.’s gin house
grist mill and saw mill were burned
down, together with all the machinery,
two mowing machines, a road wagon,
some cotton seed, rye, etc. The fire
was caused by lightning striking the
gin-house.
The office of the Express, just across
the street, and the postoffice building,
were badly scorched.
Mr. J. C. Causey, of the Cane Fear
Lumber Company, and a force of rail
road men aided valiantly in fighting the
flames. The loss is estimated at about
$1,500.
Death of an Kx-Confederate.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Tarboro, N. C., July 24, —Van Huron
Sharpe, an old Confederate hero. Is dead
at his home at Whitakers. He was a
i native of Edgecombe county and was a
I member of Company I, 75th North Car-
I lina troops, of which he became first
lieutenant.
H. & B. BEER’S MARKET LETTER. ,
(Special to News and Observer.)
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New Orleans, La., July 24. —Advices
from Liverpool wore discouraging, conse
quently our market in sympathy opened
6 to 10 points lower on near and about
4 points on the late months, subsequently*
declined 13 to 16 additional points on the
near months, 7 to 8 points on the late,
owing to favorable crop reports and a
bearish crop telegram from a leading
New York operator. The net loss on the
day was 18 points on July, 24 points on
August, 11) points on September and 11 to
li points on the other positions. Good
rains were again reported in Texas and
scattered showers generally fell through
out the belt. Showers are predicted for
Louisiana and the greater portion of
Texas tonight and Friday, and elsewhere
partly cloudy weather with occasional
showers will prevail. The crop outlook
oa the whole is favorable at present, but
*he demand for spots and future weather
conditions will regulate values.
H. & B. BEER.