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▼▼▼▼T?T r THE WEATHER TODAY, t ♦ For North Carolina! ♦ Local Rains. t VOL. LII. NO. 142. Leads all Morth Carolina Dailies in Mews and Circulation THE BOSS SPEAKS AND THE CONVENTION ACTS Pritchard Outlines in His Speech the Republican Policies- JUDGE HILL IS ENDORSED Platform a Denunciation of Every thing Democratic and a Lauda* tion of Republicanism. GRAND Si;AND AGAINST THE NEGRO Ihe Platform Declares T hat the Adoption of the Constitutional Amendment Has Taken the Mat!er Out of Poli* tics and is Then Silen\ LEAD CONENTION STORY (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 28. —The Re publican State Convention assembled promptly at 12 o'clock today and was called to order by Senator Pritchard. R. M. Douglass, Jr., welcomed the convention to the city of Greensboro, and the re sponse was made by Zeb Vance Walser, o' Lexington. Senator Pritchard then arose and> pro ceeded to address the convention. In a speech of an hour and a half's dura tion he spoke with his usual vigor and was frequently applauded. PRITCHARD’S SPEECH. Senator Pritchard began with a re view of National political conditions in the manner of a Republican handbook, ronimencing with the administration of .Harrison. He contrasted the prosperity under his administration with the lack of it in the closing days of Cleveland’s second administration, but failed to note that the prosperity was world wide and not the result of Republican policies, hut of natural conditions, as was also the lack of it. Mr. Pritchard then sketched the com paign of 1896, declaring that the Demo cratic platform promulgated at Chicago was “an attack upon everybody and everything in general and contained many things calculated to appeal to prejudice rather than to reason.” He discussed the currency question and used all the stock arguments to show' that the conditions which followed the inauguration of McKinley were due to Republican policies and to Republican policies alone. Proceeding with his argument the Sen ator took up conditions in the State, claiming that the rapid industrial de velopment herein is due in great part to the policies of the National Administra tion, overlooking the fact that North Carolina under the present State Demo cratic government is more prosperous than at any time in her history. Regret was expressed at the death of Resident McKinley, and satisfaction in the present chief executive of the na tion. The “false issue” of imperialism was touched upon, and the “abusive attacks upon the American soldiers” sent to the Philippines “for the purpose of uphold ing the honor and integrity of the na tion. and enforcing obedience to the man dates of our government-” In regard to the position of the party with respect to the Philippine Islands, the speaker said: “We propose to retain them and to give to their inhabitants the very best form of government suitable to their necessities as a people.” The old claim was made that the acquisition of this territory would in the end result in more substantial benefit to the South than all other section of the country combined. A good deal of time was taken up in discussing the tariff question." The position of the Democratic leaders on the present status of the negro ques tion was attacked, and they were ac cused of not keeping faith with the peo ple on the color line, it being claimed that the adoption of the amendment would eliminate the issue of the negro. The portion of the Revenue Act tax ing the corporations came in for a good ly share of the Senator’s berating. The taxes on merchants were called “very The “inquisitorial fea tures of the reports” for taxation were characterized as “odious in the extreme.” The Senator touched very lightly on the method of assessing real estate, and said that if it was honestly enforced, “it will result in the citizens of the State having to pay at least one-third more tax than they are paying at present.” Many figures "were given and several comparisons were made to show that the Democrats had expended more of the State's money than the Republicans. Capital was made o fthe fact that the State was compelled to borrow $200,000 in March for one year. The money spent in the impeachment trial and the in crease in the Governor's salary came in for special mention, and also the pay ment of expenses incurred by the election registrars who were indicted. The amendment came in for a parting slap, the Senator claiming that it would The News and obssrver. be impossible for the State to educate all the illiterate whites. Senator Pritchard concluded with strictness upon the Democratic party for nominating Judge Walter Clark for Chief Justice. Looking down on the convention there were four negroes to be seen down stairs and a few old Uncle Remuses in the gal lery. The four were the regularly ap pointed delegates from Warren county, headed by Plummer Cheatham, but they were later lifted out bodily in favor of a white delegation by the Committee on Credentials. The few old colored war horses in the gallery had far away ex pressions in their eyes, but their coun tenances beamed with delight when Pritchard began roasting the Democrats. After the appointment of a Committee on Credentials the convention adjourned until five o’clock and a caucus was called for three o’clock. The statement in yesterday’s conven iton report that Mr. F. H. Whitaker was here representing Halifax was an error. Mr. Whitaker stated today that he was here on business and had not been about the convention. He declared himself a David B. Hill Democrat. THE NEGROES TURNED OUT. At a few minutes after five o’clock the convention reassembled and heard the re port of the Committee on Credentials. The qommittee had just emerged from a stormy session of three hours’ length. Cheatham, O’Hara and the other negro delegates from Warren, Craven, Halifax, Vance and several other counties had presented their credentials and fought for recognition, hut they were turned out to a man, mostly by hatched up coutestiug delegations of, old moss-hack whites like Joe Wood, of Halifax, and Bob Hancock, of Craven. The ’ommittees reported seated both delegations from Rockingham because there was no negro in either and seated the white contestants in every other con tested county. The report was adopted and then J. M. Moody nominated the Southern Railroad in the person of Capt. Chas. Price, of Rowan, for permanent chairman. He was elected unanimously and was escorted to the chair by Judge Bynum and C. A. Rey nolds. Ha rook the gavel but opened not his mouth, thinking perhaps that the least said would be soonest rescinded. McNeill, of Wilkes, was elected perma nent secretary, and the following com mittee appointed on Platform and Reso lutions: Harry Skinner, D. H. Abbott, E. M. Stanton, C. P. Lockey, C. A. Rey nolds, T. 11. Sutton, Z. V. Walser, A. H. Price, L*. L. Jenkins, and J. J. Britt; a committee, headed by Judge W. P. By num, was then appointed on Plan of Or ganization, after which, without motion and with surprise and disgust to many of the delegates, the chair declared the con vention adjourned until 8:30 o'clock. THE NIGHT SESSION. When the convention assmebled after supper Seawell, of Moore, offered a reso lution endorsing Senator Pritchard and the records of Congressmen Moody and Blackburn, which was unanimously adopted. Assistant District Attorney Price then offered resolutions, agreed on in caucus endorsing T. N. Hill for Chief Justice and leaving blank nominations for Associate Justices, which were adopted without opposition. D. A. Long, of Alamance, was nomi nated for Superintendent of Public In struction, by R. N. Douglass, who, in an swer to enquiry, vouched for his Repub licanism, and he went through all right. Assistant District Attorney Oscar Spears, of Harnett, and ex-Judge W. P. Bynum named D. H. Abbott for Railroad Com missioner, who was nominated by a ris ing vote. E. W. Timberlake, of Franklin, Fourth district, W. S. O’B. Robinson, of Wayne, Sixth district: H. F. Seawell, of Moore, Eighth district: A. L. Coble, of Iredell. Tenth district: 11. R. Starbuck. of For syth, Flevonth district; R. H. McNeill, of Ashe, Thirteenth district; O. B. F. Blythe, of Henderson, Fourteenth dis trict; C. I). Mashburn, of Madison. Fifteenth district: Baylus Cade, of Hay wood, Sixteenth district, were nominated without opposition for judges of Superior court. Z. V. Walser then reported resolutions of Committee on Platform, which were adopted without opposition. Ex-Judge W. P. Bynum of the Commit tee on Plan of Organization, submitted amendments to party rules, tending to Increase representation in District, State and County Nominating Conventions, so as to bring them closer to the people and changing section six so as to leave no doubt about its construction, and against that put upon it at Rural Hall Judicial Convention. Adopted. COMMITTEE ON PLATFORM. The Committee on Platform had easy sailing except when the constitutional suffrage amendment came up, the plat form had been written and agreed upon and in Senator Pritchard's room long be fore the committee was appointed, and it had in it that miserable subterfuge on the suffrage amendment, which was fin ally a'dopted, but Senator Pritchard had to appear before the committee person ally and make a personal appeal in or der to prevent the committee from re porting a section declaring that the party accepted in good faith the constitutional amendment and pledging not to interfere or encourage any interference with its provisions. The resolution was written and offered by Prof. J. J. Britt, of Mitchell county, and was in plain and unequivocal lan guage. The committee was unanimous in its support of the Britt resolution, and concluded that as nothing had ben done without the sanction of Pritchard that it would send for him before finally recommending the resolution. The Sen ator appeared, and after an hour of earn est appeal persuaded the committee to omit the resolution and report the origi nal subterfuge. At the suggestion of Col. Harry Skinner, a section condemning the legislature for increasing the governor’s salary, was stricken out. The remainder RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 29 1902. of the cut and dried platform went through with a whoop. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. The Republicans of North Carolina, in convention assembled at Greensboro on the 28th day of August, 1902, adopt the following as a declaration of princi ples upon which they ask the support of the people of the State: We deplore and deeply mourn the death of President McKinley. His Christian character, noble impulses and patriotic spirit have done more to strengthen Republican institutions than any other agency which has been em ployed in modern times; and his life and work will prove a tower of strength to the Christian religion and to official in tegrity and fidelity for all time to come. While we deeply mourn the loss of our beloved President, at the same time we appreciate the fact that in President Roosevelt we have a President whose honesty of purpose and patriotism are such as to assure us that the affairs of the American people are in safekeeping, and his faith in the principles of Re publicanism is such as to guarantee a faithful adherence to those things that have made for this republic the splen did reputation which it now has as a world power. We endorse the national platform of the party adopted at Phil adelphia, and point with pride to the unexampled prosperity which a Repub lican administration has brought to the country at large. Intelligence being the corner stone of the State, and the education of the masses being dependent solely upon our public schools, we favor the support by public taxation of at least a lour months school in every scaool district in me St*to, and we condemn the Democratic party for its failure to provide prorer educational facilities lor the education of the i oci children of the SLa.e during its lease of power from 1870 to We favor generous public aid to all charitable institutions of the State, and the enactment of such pension laws as will give the ex-Confederate soldiers a more generous and equitable distribution of this fund than is provided for by the present pension laws. We favor such State legislation as will encourage the investment of capi tal, both foreign and domestic, and we respectfully invite capitalists from abroad to come among us and assist in the development of our wonderful re sources. We invite the attention of the people of the State to the clean, able and economic administration of our State government by the Republican and Popu list parties from 1897 to 1901, and chal lenge a comparison of it with the present reckless management of our affairs by the Democratic party. We arraign the leaders of the Demo cratic party as false to every pledge made in the last campaign. They promised to reduce expenses, and instead of doing so they have increased expenditures !in almost every depart ment of our State Government. They promised to curtail rather than increase the number of offices, and in stead of doing so they have increased the number of judges and solicitors from twelve to sixteen, and have made other increases by providing for the em ployment of clerical help that has not heretofore been deemed necessary under similar circumstances. They promised to reduce salaries, hut instead of doing so they have increased the governor's salary during his term of ofiice, in violation of the constitution, and have provided many ways by which the people are today taxed far in ex cess of any rate they have heretofore had to pay. They promised to reduce taxation, and instead of doing so they have leg islated so that our receipts increased within three years in the sum of SBOO,- 419.97. They promised to reduce expenditures, and instead of doing so, in three years they have increased expenditures in the sum of $1,088,545. They promised, by affidavit and other wise, that no white man would be dis franchised under the amendment to our Constitution, but instead of observing their pledge with respect to this matter, the Democratic State chairman is now forced to admit that 18,000 whits min will te denied the right to v te at the api reaching election We condemn them for their unwarrant ed effort to impeach two of our Supreme Court Justices for purely partisan pur poses, for following precedents establish d by the Supreme Court of this State in a long line of decisions covering a period of more than sixty years. We further condemn them for the en actment of legislation appropriating the money of the people for the purpose of defraying the expenses of persons in dicted for the violation of laws which they had sworn to obey, and for granting amnesty to such persons from prosecu tion in the State courts. \Y T e declare that when the Constitu tional amendment was adopted by the people of North Carolina two years ago, it passed out of the realm of politics, and that if Governor Aycock, Senator Sim mons and others keep faith with the people in the pledges then made, there can be no such thing as a race issue in the present campaign. THE PIE EATING BRIGADF. No Federal Office Holder Able to Pay His Way to Greensboro Absent, (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 28. —The Re publican convention at Greensboro was the biggest of all the semi-annual gath erings of the Federal pie brigade. They were here in throngs. They were head ed, of course, by United States Senator, Jeter C. Pritchard, the great distributor of Federal pie. They were augmented by not exceeding a baker’s dozen of for mer Democrats who have for one rea- son or another dropped off the Demo cratic band wagon. The negro was not in it in person, but ho was here all the same. Cuffy knows his business and he knows that he can afford to risk his white allies. He knows full well that an anti-Democratic vic tory in North Carolina means his resto ration to the privilege of voting and of fice holding. He knows, too, because his allies have told him, that the best thing he can do at this stage of the pro ceeding is to saw wood and keep quiet. So he has consented to stay at home and let the old moss backs come and fix mat ters, if they can, in such away as to fool the people and bring back the days of ’95 and ’97. For these reasons the coon, except in a very few instances, was conspicuous by his absence. But he was in the fight from start to finish and he came out winner. There were a few new recruits and others who favored a positive declaration by the convention that would put the brother in black out of the contest entirely, but it was no go. Cuffy had too many friends among the old moss backs. He had stood with them for lo these many years and they know that whether he was at the convention or whether he was not he was yearning for an opportunity to vote the Republican ticket. So these old moss backs, these old leaders of fus ion in ’95 and '97, these postmasters, revenue doodles and bung smellers, head ed by Pritchard himself, stood up and again between negro elimination anil negro rule by their refusal to accept the suffrage amendment as a part of our organic law made the negro a factor once more in the politics of the State. I saw many Republicans and hosts of Democrats who were earnestly and con scientiously hoping that the convention would do otherwise; that it would de clare itself in emphatic terms in favor of our politieal battle between white men and white men alone, and I have heard many say since the action of the convention that the party is in a thous and atoms. Many declare that they will not support Hill, or any other but a straight. Republican. I said yesterday that it was the same old pie brigade. I don’t believe there is a Federal office holder in the State whose salary is sufficient to pay railroad fare and hotel bill that is not here. Among those who are most in evidence are Duncan and Dockery and Harry Skinner, the eastern pie eating triumvi rate. Then comes Harkins, Holton and Millikan, the western big three, and they have with them hundreds of their sub ordinates, store-keepers, deputy mar shals, revenue doodles and bung smell ers from every smutty corner. Then there are Lusk and Hyanis, the two Prices from S.y'jsbury. Ramsey, Pat terson, Mullen. Bailey, Glenn, Reynolds, Rollins, Pearson, and a hundred other postmasters, and these are backed up bv Sharkey. Hare. Warren. Hall. A. H. Mashburn. McNeill. Hamrick, the Longs of Rockingham, Geo. Pritchard, Corales, of Statesville: Moody, Blackburn, Alex ander and Morris, and the old Sage of Davie, W. J. Ellis, with a half a dozen Baileys from the moonshine distillery district, and the east side of the Yadkin- Linney is or course-here, and so is Rand leman, the young Pntchardite. from Salisbury and old Capt. Jno. Ramsey, who never misses a convention and who gets but little. Clyde Cheek, of Hills boro, and Seawell and Sutton and Slo cumb and A. M. Clarke, of the Piney Woods section. Meekins is here, meek and lowly, bowing the knee to the Gamaliel of the hilltops of Madison. Satterfield and John Smith and Buchanan, Walser, Wallace, Satterfield, J M. Smith. Masten. Benbow and Lit tleton and two hunderd others whose names and offices are familiar to ex cry looker on upon a Radical or fusion con vention that has been held in twenty years. The only negro who circulates among them is Henry Plummer Cheat ham, about the best of the race the par ty ever elevated, but. who hit the dust perhaps because of this fact. He comes as a regularly appointed delegate and he had something to say, but he was not allowed to say it. pave Lane, the Wake county delegate must have gotten lost on the way as he has not put in an appearance. Loge Harris is about the. only prominent one of the old crowd who is not here. F. B. ARENDALL. New Insurance Company. The United Mutual Insurance Company of North Carolina was yesterday liensed by the Insurance Commissioner to do a general fire insurance business. The company was organized as a State Insurance Company, under the laws of North Carolina, and will do a general business throughout the country with strong connections. Mr. Frank A. Colley, of Boston, Mass., well known as a prominent underwriter and long identified with the leading fire insurance companies of this country and England, is the President, and John B. Kenney, well and favorably known for his insurance ability, is the secretary. The Board of Directors are: Messrs. Leo D. Heartt, of Raleigh; Frank A. Colley, of Boston: John B. Kenney, of Raleigh: H. N. Bates, of Boston; T. E. Clary, of Boston. The home office of the company will he in Raleigh, N. C., with offices in the Carolina Trust Company's building. Institutes in the West. Dr. Tait Butler, the State Veterina rian, returned yesterday morning from Sparta. He. in company with Prof. Massey, held several institutes in the mountains after separating from Commis sioner Patterson and Dr. Kilgore at Dr, Butler and Prof. Maasey held institutes at Boone, Jefferson and Sparta. They were well attended. Dr. Butler says that the interest in them was greater than had been expected. Mrs. Dorcas: Why is Mrs. Gadsby so glad she hasn’t any children? Dorcas: It gives her more time to at tend those mothers’ meetings-—Judge. THE PRESIOEHfTO GRAND ARMY MEN * [hirty Thousand People Wel come Roosevelt. HE EULOGIZES VETERANS They Teach Us a Great Lesson of Brotherhood. AMERICAN ARMY IN THE PHILIPPINES Ihe President Declares That it Has Brought the Peaceful Liaht of Civiliz ition, into One of the World’s Da r k Places. (Ey the Associated Press.) The Weirs, N. H., Aug. 28—Fully 30,000 people joined in welcoming the President of the United States on his visit to the encampment of the New Hampshire G. A. R. here today. The Manchester batteries signalled the arrival of the train by the first gun of a Presidential salute. An es cort made up of two companies of the National Guard, together with a large number of Civil War veterans were drawn up at the stand. The column escorted the President to the Hotel Weirs, from the steps of which the President held a re view. After luncheon the President was escorted to the camp ground, where the speaking took place. President Roose velt was introduced to the veterans and when he could make himself heard he be gan his address, speaking as follows: “Any American who has a proper sense of the relative proportion of things must realize that to the men who fought for (he Union in the dark days of the Civil War there is owing a greater debt of gratitude than to any others. Great were the deeds you did and vital the need of doing them. We have encountered many criticises of importance and from time to time have been brought face to face with great problems, upon the rightful solution of which most of the nations future welfare depended. But to you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's well being but the nation’s life was at stake. To you it was given to solve the one problem which if not solved aright meant death for our people. All of the work of the men who founded this republic would have gone for noth ing had you not done your part well. It was tho statesmanship of Lincoln, the soldiership of Grant and the loyal valor of those who uphold the arms of the one and followed the sword of the other which made permanent the work of Wash ington, of Marshall and their compeers. It would have profited little to us or to mankind at large if the experiment of free government by (he people and for the people had been founded upon this continent only to go down in hlotnly wreck on the question of slavery. You saved the Union and you freed the slave and thereby freed the slaves master from the worst of all thraldom. You did the service of struggling in a cause and for a reward in that war based upon naught that was merely material. We pride our selves and properly so, upon our great industrial capacity, our great industrial skill. We need such success and such capacity to make broad and stable the foundations of our national well being. Yet there are things higher than any possible material triumph. “We are now in a time of abundance, peace and not in time of war. But woe to us if in peace we do not have ideals as lofty as yours, and if we do not live up to them as you lived up to yours in the dark days of defeat and in the gol den glory of the hor of triumph. Cour age and loyalty, the stern determination to enact justice, the high purpose to struggle for the right, an the common sense to struggle for it in practical fash ion—all these qualities we must show now in our civil and social and business life as you showed them. “Among the greatest benefits of what you did was the fact that you have also left us the right of hearty and loyal comradeship with your gallant oppon ents who. in fighting for what they con scientiously deemed to be right, fought against the stars in their courses. “We are all loyal Americans now — North, South, East and West—all alike jealous of the nation’s honor and wel fare, proud of th nation’s past and reso lute that her future shall stand even higher than her past. “We need to learn aright and to apply the great lesson of brotherhood which you taught and practiced in the four grim years that began with Sumter and ended with Appomattox. In the old sim ple America of our forefathers-*-the America which still for our good for tune exists in country districts —there was comparative freedom from certain dangers to which the country as a whole, is now necessarily exposed. The growth of great cities an of individual and cor porate fortunes—the tendency in great cities to divide men into groups and classes—naturally diminishes the realiza tion of that essential underlying broth erhood which ought to be deep in the heart of every American. Looking into the mists of the future we see dark problems looming before us. We can solve these problems aright only if we keep constantly in mind that each must work for all and all for each. In other' words, we need to feel in our being the ;sense of brotherhood." The President concluded his address with a brief defense of the army in the . Philippines, saying it had brought the j peaceful light of civilization into one of the world’s dark places. On the Diamond. (Special to News and Observer.) New Bern, N. C.» Aug. 28. —The Chi cago female Stars and a scrub team of New Bern crossed bats at the Athletic park today- The females won by a score of 14 to 4. They outplayed the lo cals in every point. Six hundred spec tators witnessed the game. Special fea tures were Misses Maude Nelson at the slab, Maggie Burk left fielder and Mary O'Conner first base. Batteries: Chi cago, Maude Nelson and Willie Gage; New Bern, Jordan, Daniels and Gaskill. Umpire, C. L. Stevens. American League. (By the Associated Tress.) At Detroit— R H E Detroit 0 0300001 *—4 7 0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 6 1 At Cleveland R H E Cleveland 00200020 *—s 12 0 Washington ....0 0030000 o—30 —3 7 3 At Chicago— R II E Chicago 0003 01 0 0 x—4 9 3 Philadelphia ....0 0001000 o—l 4 4 (Second game) R H E Chicago 10012000 o—4 6 4 Philadelphia.. ..0 0001103 o—s 11 3 At St. Louis — RUE* St. Louis .. ..0 00 0 0 00 0 0 I—l 8 3 Baltimore 0 00000000 o—o0 —0 4 4 National League. At Pittsburg— R H E Pittsburg .. ..1 06 2 1 oft 1 *—ll 16 2 Chicago 0 0000002 1— 3 13 3 Eastern League. Worcester 4; Newark 1. Jersey City 3; Providence 1. Buffalo 5; Rochester 2. Montreal 10; Toronto 5. Southern League. Nashville, 9; New Orleans, 2. Remaining games postponed on ac count of rain. TRIBUTE TO WILSON Great Aid Given Southern Agriculture- Large r Appropriations Urged, (By the Associated Press.) Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 28.—The con vention of the Cotton States Commis sioners of Agriculture today adopted the following resolution: “The Cotton States Associaten of Com missioners of Agriculture express their acknowledgement and appreciation of the able management of the National Department of Agriculture by Hon. James Wilson. “Resolved, That Secretary Wilsou has given more attention and assistance to the agriculture of the South than all his predecessors. That the experts that he is sending into the field are active and competent and doing a valuable work. “Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress are earnest ly urged to secure larger appropriations by Congress to the National Department of Agriculture.” In the course of a paper on cotton culture, J. F. Dugger, of Alabama, said that cotton would undoubtedly hold its own position during our" generation be cause it is easily sold, requires less cap ital and can be grown on poor soil that will not raise other products. A too close cultivation impoverishes the soil, but there should be gradual and rational changes. Judge W. H. Tayloe, of Alabama, read a paper on the Torrens system of land registration and its effect on the value of country property. The speaker de clared he would like to see the associa tion start a crusade against everything but fee simple titles. Entailing life es tates and dowers should be abolished and the time to begin was now. With the question of titles once settled it would be easy to settle the question of land values. Malcolm Mc-Ncall, of Atlanta, pre sented a proposition to establish in Chi cago a free permanent exposition of all the products of the Southern States. It is also proposed to establish a Southern Bureau of Information and a club for the improvement of commercial relations. A resolution endorsing the project was introduced and referred to a special com mittee. The Nevada Convention. (By the Associated Press.) Reno, Nev., Aug. 27.—The Democratic and Silver State Convention met today and appointed the usual conference com mittees for the purpose of fusion. The conventions adopted platforms today. Balloting for Congressman, Governor and State officials will begin tomorrow. The Democratic platform endorses the Kansis City platform, denounces the Fow ler currency bill favors tariff reform; pronounces in favor of the Constitution folowiug flag, opposes the ship subsidy bill; favors the admission as States of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico; and felicitates the the region on the passage of the irrigation bill. Congressman Newlands is endorsed for United States Senator. The Silver party platform does not differ materialy from the Democratic but declared more specifi cally for the free coinage. It endorses Newland’s candidacy. It is the guilty man who is always afraid of hi 3 “shadow.” ► THE WEATHER TO-DAY.t ► For Raleigh: ► Showers. t a....* PRICE FIVE CEVTB. TROOPS ARE MET BY VOLLEYS Os STORES Report of a March on No. Four Colliery. SOLDIERS RUSHED THERE The Cars Surrounded By Hooting Mob of Strikers ONE MAN WOUNDED, SEVERAL ARRESTED Intense Feeling Against the Soldiers in Lans ford and Summit Hill. Four Men Killed iu a Fight in West Vir ginia Coal Fields. (By the Associated Press.) Tamaqua, Pa., Aug. 28.—The first clash between the striking miners and the troops occurred this morning and as a result five prisoners are in Oflie guard house at the Twelfth regiment camp and Captain J. Beaver Gearhart, of Company J F, Twelfth regiment, is suffering from 1 a wound on his shoulder made by a stone I thrown by a striker. This morning.a report gained currency that the striking men were gathering in force to make a march on the No. 4 col liery where the Lehigh Coal and Navi gation Company is mining and cleaning coal. The colliery is at t4ie west end of the Panther Creek Valley. The Gov ernor's troop was ordered to that point. Companies F and K, of the Twelfth regi ment, were placed on trolley cars and run through the valley. When the cars reached Summit Hill they were surrounded by a mob of strik ers who hurled rocks at the soldiers and called them hard names. While "Jimmy” Marteen, an Italian, was in the act of hurling a stone at a car several soldiers jumped off and made an attempt to capture him. Marteen of fered resistance and the soldiers were compelled to fix their bayonets. In (he melee which followed Marteen was slightly wounded in the loft 3ide. The troopers started back to caiftp and as the ears rounded a curve Just outside of Summit Hill, at a point where the tracks take an abrupt dip, the motorman on the first car made the discovery that the rails had been greased. The cars were stopped and soldiers were sent ahead to place sand on the rails. When this had been done it was possible by moving the cars slow'ly to reach Lansford in safety. A mob had gathered there and for a time it looked like riot. As the first car was passed through the mob. Captain Gearhart was struck on the right should er by a stone. Several soldiers jumped from the car in pursuit of the stone thrower. After an exciting scuffle they captured Joseph McCann, a young miner. The cars proceeded again but had not gone far when another crowd was en countered and the soldiers were again taunted and stopped. Half a dozen jumped off and captured three men, who it is alleged, were urging the crowd to attack the troops. The inen gave their names as John King. Timothy King and John Kelly. They were taken to camp at Manila Park, where, together with McCann and Marteen they were placed under a heavy guard. The officers of the Twelfth regiment all agree that the situation is serious. They say the feeling against the soldiers .Is very strong in Lansford and Summit Hill. FOUR MEN SHOT IE 10. A Battle Between Mine Guards and Strikers 0 on Cane Creek (By the Associated Press.) Roanok, Va., Aug. 28.—Advices received at the general offices of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company from the coal fields, say that two mine guards and two strikers were killed in a battle on Crane Creek, in Mercer county, West Virginia, this morning. The scene of the shooting is in the vicinity of the Crane Creek Coal Company’s operation and of the Thomas Coal and Coke Company’s operation. A body of mine guards num bering thirty or forty were fired on by a party of unknown men armed with rifles, believed to have been made up of strikers. The guards returned their fire, and when the shooting had ceased it was found that two men on each side had been killed. The sheriff of Mercer coun ty, whose office is at Princeton Court House was immediately advised, and left at once for the scene. Norfolk and Western officials say the trouble was confined to the Crane Creek territory, where several of .the operations have been /‘losed down. At Caswell Creek yesterday evening a volley was fired by unknown men, wounding a boy who was employed as a driver in a mine. Thore is no clue to the identity of the men who did the shooting and a search by a posse for them has so far been unsuccessful. Mother Kills Children and Herself. f (By the Associated Press.) Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 28.—Kate Wag ner, wife of Ross J. Wagner, a machin ist, killed her two children, aged six, and herself, Tuesday night at their homo in Littla Rock, by cutting their throats with a razor. No cause is known for the act. Their bodies wore found in the house today by the aged mother of Mrs. Wag ner. -
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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