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Tlie Weather Today: FAIR. The News and Obscurer. VOL. LII. NO. 144. ^ 7 IPffl[p®[P© odd LBcdILDo sqodgO ©B[p©QnDsillocs)cm ADVANCE SHEETS FROM THE DEMOCRATIC HANDBOOK The “Independent” Scheme in North Carolina is Clearly Presented to the People. BLAZE TURNED ON THE REPUBLICAN DEAL The Party of “Bosses’' Holds' Out False Light. READY TO WELCOVE THF NEGRO BACK | The Schemes of the Republicans as Laid at and Preceding the State Con vention Are Told and the Real Pur pose and Motive of £very Move Made by Pritchard is Set Forth Showing How it is Sought to T e 1 ude and Hood - wink the People of North Carolina so That the Enemies of the Best In terests of the State May Again Come Into Power. The Republican party feels so thor oughly discredited that it is not willing to make a canvas this vear in its own name. It knows that in such a cam paign its defeat would be certain and crushing. To avoid making a canvas in its own name and upon its record and princi ples. it has determined to make a non partisan campaign and to encourage ij dependent Democratic candidates vhcr ever practicable, and to fight as much as possible under the banner of inde pendency. Following this plan of battle, they are giving all the encouragement possible to independent candidates. Any defeated Democratic aspirant for office can get encouragement from the Republican ma chine. He is told that he has been bad ly treated; that he was entitled to the nomination: that he was cheated out of the nomination; that he people are for him; and that the Democratic party is run by rings and court-house cliques. He is told that if he will run for office he will get more than one-half of the Democratic votes, and all of the Repub lican and independent vote, and that his election will be a certainty. They prom ise further, that, if by any possibility he should be defeated, he will be “taken care of" by Senator Pritchard, and that a position in the Revenue Service or in the Postoffice Department will be pro vided for them. These are the tempta tions held out to the disappointed men in the Democratic party. It the Democrat hesitates he is told that independency is all right now. They tell him that the Democratic party promised that the amendment would make the whites free; and that there would be freedom of thought, speech and action, after the amendment was adopt ed. They endeavor to delude the hearer into the belief that as soon as the amendment was adopted all rules of po litical and moral honor were abrogated, and that it became entirely proper and legitimate for a man to be a candidate before a Democratic convention, and, if not successful, announce himself as an independent candidate and try to defeat the man who was successful in the Dem ocratic convention. The Republican par ty secs nothing improper in such con duct, for it is color blind on all ques tions of honor and propriety. It has been backing such candidates in this State for more than thirty years. Many of the leaders of the Republican party today are men who left the Democratic party, after having failed to obtain promo tion as expected in that party. The Democratic party has always been a party of free men. It has never been a party controlled by committees or revenue officers. It has been composed of nearly the entire body of the white men of this State. It has always been controlled, both in platform and in nom inations, by a majority of it 3 voters; and these voters have always been given an opportunity to express their choice as to platform and candidates. No ef fort has ever been made to coerce or forestall the action of the people. No Democratic convention has ever been preceded by a secret caucus, at which the action of the convention was mapped out. It has always been the party of the white men of North Carolina. It has been what those white inert- made It. Its successes and defeats have been theirs- While this is true, it is also true that for more than thirty years it has been the only party in this State which has been free from th rt control of the machine. The Republican party has always been a party of “bosses." The Republican loaders have always admitted this. They have excused it by saying that if they had a plan of organization like the Democrats had the negro would rule their party. So for thirty-five years the Republican party has been absolutely dominated by its machine; and the ma chine has been run by a few Federal office holders, many of them renegade Democrats. The Republican convention recently hold In Greensboro was a shining ex ample of boss rule. The Republican party wanted to put out a ticket, but Senator Pritchard thought his only chance of re-election to the Senate was by helping the independents. So he for bade the convention nominating a ticket. He was master of the convention, and while the vast majority of the conven tion and party were against him. it had to bow to his will or lose the Federal offices. The delegates did not long hes itate. They bowed down to Pritchard and held on to their offices. So it was decided to fill up their ticket with Dem ocrats, giving the Republicans only one place out of five. The work started in by the endorsement of Judge Hill, an in dependent. Then they wanted to endorse our nomi nees for Judge of the Supreme Court, Judge Connor and Mr. Walker. This was ordered by Senator Pritchard and was about to be done, when Colonel Skinner remembered that when he was a Pop in 1804, the Pops endorsed Judge Connor for this same office, and that Judge Con nor refused their endorsement. So he asked Senator Pritchard what he thought the effect would be if Messrs. Connor and Walker should decline the Republican Ondorsemenit. This question surprised Senator Pritchard. It never occurred to liim that a man could decline an office. (He had never been a Democrat like Skinner.) He was gravely disturbed, and changed the order. Instead of endorsing Messrs. Connor and Walker, no one was nominated against them and their names will do printed on the Republican ticket and voted. This went. Then he ordered the convention to en dorse Mr. Joyner for Superintendent of Public Instruction. But some one sug gested that this would leave the Repub licans but one man, Dr. Abbott, on their ticket. They begged for two men, and finally Pritchard agreed that they might put up one, provided they selected one who had been a Democrat and who had spent a good part of his life out of the State, and had not much of a record in North Carolina. Upon these terms the convention nominated somebody named Long. So the result of the convention was the nomination of one independent, and of two Republicans, with two vacancies on the ticket to be filled hereafter by ihe Republican. Executive Committee. Then the convention denounced boss rule and declared that the Democratic party was ring-ridden. It went further, and in the hope of making the Independents more eomfortable, they ran all of the negroes out of the convention, and, after dwelling with the brothers in black for nearly forty years, they declared in sav age tones that they “didn’t like a nigger, rio how.” This is the Republican attitude this year! It will be strange if any man shall be deluded into bofieving that the Republican party is in favor of freedom of thought It never has been and never can be so long as it takes orders from its leaders as it did in Greensboro. Can any one imagine the Democratic party taking orders from any one? Such an idea is preposterous. The first, suspicion that any man had assumed the power to issue orders to the Democratic party would be the signal for that man's un doing. The Democratic party is now the party which encourages the widest liberty of thought and discussion. It is not pro scriptive; it is not hide-bound. It vouches to its members the largest freedom of opinion and it permits on all non-essen tials a striking diversity of opinion. This year it has nominated men who repre sent every diverse school of opinion in the party. It has nominated men who differ on the currency question, on the Philippine question, and on many others. It has re-nominated for the General As sembly men who thought the impeached Judges were guilty, and men who gave them the benefit of a doubt. On the es sential principles of Democracy the party expects unity; on the non essentials it permits a freedom of opinion and of ac tion which no other party in this tate ever dreamed of permitting. This has always bc> n so. Before the adoption of the amendment the danger of negro dom ination was omnipresent and overwhelm ing. AD other questions were made in significant by this danger. And Demo crats did not discuss other questions when this danger was imminent. It has now in a large measure passed away (if we tan believe the Republicans), and Demo crats have begun to discuss other mat ters within the party, with a freedom which must be amazing to the Republi cans and Populists. At the last Demo cratic State Gonvention at Greensboro the platform, presented by the Committee on Platform was discussed for several hours. The committee was sustained on a close vote upon one plank, and very decidedly beaten on another plank. No one ever heard of a North Carolina Re publican bold enough to antagonize the platform presented by the committer in a Republican convention. The Demo cratic party wants the fullest discussion and the freest action on the part of all of its members. The plan of organization RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1902. guarantees this; and it even guarantees a hearing and representation to the mi nority. It only asks that Democrats make their fight within their own rank;:. Let them fight as hawl as they please over candidates and platform and whe.i the decision is made, then the minority acquiesce in the judgment of the party. No man can render the State a service as an independent, as valuable as the service he can render as the member of a political organization. Without a po litical organization a man can seldom accomplish much. Within the party a ntan can always accomplish some good, often he can accomplish a great deal. Every man should affiliate with some political party; and there is not now, and for years to come it is not probabb ?hat there will be, but one party to which a good citizen ought to belong. That par ty is the Democratic party. The Republican party will fail to gain anything front its suport of the so-called independent movement. The scheme is too transparent. It is nothing but a repetition of history. In 1878 they back ed independents and lost. In 1882 they backed another movement and lost. That year they called it Liberalism. In 188*1 and 1886 they assisted independents and in the latter year carried a few coun ties, but lost the State by a large ma jority. Afterwards they went into the Fusion scheme with the Pons, and after four years of Fusion misrule, this com bination was ground into powder. Now. with the same old crowd, (except the negroes, whom they have hid out in the woods for a purpose), the Republicans invite the white people of this State to be “independent” and let them (the Re publicans) have the offices. And the feeble scheme is the only hope left to Senator Pritchard of holding the seat in the United States Senate so long occupied by Zeb Vance. ALL INDEPENDENTS AFTER REPUB LICAN VOTES. v It is usual, almost universal, for an independent to claim that he is a bet ter Democrat than the regular nominee. This claim is so common that it has be come a set formula of all independents. Some really delude themselves into be lieving this to be true. Yet there is not a single independent in the State who stands the remotest chance to be elected, unless he shall get the bulk of the Re publican vote. Go over the list and you will not find one who stands a ghost of a chance without the Republican vote. The Republicans know this, and at the proper time and before the election the Republicans will “see” these independ ents and make terms with them, or drop them. Some of the independents will .a . . through the game, refuse the Republican demands, and withdraw from the race. Some bold men will denounce the Repub lican proposals. But some of the inde pendents, too, hungry for office, will make terms with the Republicans, staj in the race and receive the Republican votes. We predict that every man that remains in the field until election day, as an independent candidate, will do so solely relying on Republican votes. Every such man, if elected, will be under the obligations of the deal, as well as of gratitude, to do the will of the Re publicans. The Republicans know this. They are counting on these independents to re-elect Senator Pritchard. It, was to encourage these independents that the Ronublieans refused to attack ithe amendment, and put out so few nominees. It was to placate these inde pendents that the Republicans kicked the negro delegates out of the convention, and swore, after living thirty-five years with negroes, that they were now going to try to act like white folks. But the movement will not deceive anybody. ) TO UNITE CHUBCI AND STAGE. Radical Ideas of Rev Forbes Phillips, Vicar of Gorleson (By the Associated Press.) London, Aug. 30.—The Rev. Forbes Phillips, Vicar of Gorleston, near Yar mouth. who aroused widespread comment by permitting Mrs. Brown Potter to re cite from his pulpit in June, 1001, is agitating a fresh and more startling scheme for a close union of the church and stage in the cause of religion. He proposes that each parish maintain a theatre under the management of the church. In an outspoken interview the clergyman says: “Clergymen overdo the religious side of life, thereby ruining the spiritual liver, like that of overfed Strassburg geese.” The plan of the Rev. Mr. Phillips in cludes a revival of the mystery plays of the middle ages and the establishment of a sort of Oberainmergau Society in each parish. Mimic Assault on Culebra Island. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 30.—One of the most picturesque features of the big winter manoeuvres in the Caribbean will be a mimic assault upon Culebra Island, which will be defended by five companies of marines, scheduled to embark on the Panther, either at Philadelphia or at Norfolk, by November 20th. The plan is understood to involve an attempt to take possession of the island by sending landing parties of Jackies from the war ships, and the earnestness which the men throw into the work should make the at tack on Culebra one of the most faithful pictures of real war. which the man oeuvres will produce. Program of Trotting Association, fßv the Associated Press.) Memphis, Tenn., Aug. The pro gramme of the second race meeting of the Memphis Trotting Association. October 21-30, was made public today. There will be eleven events for trotters and pacing, ranging in value from $1,090 to $6,000, and a total of SII,BOO of added money. The feature of the meeting will be the diamond handicap, October 23rd, with $6,- | OOt) added for 2:15 trotters. SAVABLE SEIZES THE GREAT PRIZE He Wins the f uturity by an Eyelash. LORDOFTHEVALESECOND Dazzling, One of the Four Keene Re presentatives, Third. THE TIME OF THE RACE ONF, FOURTEEN A Throng of Fifty Thousand People Watch With Breathless Interest the Greit Field Strug gle For the Laurel Wreath ot Championship. (By the Associated Press.) New York, Aug. 30. —Savable, sired by Salvator, the most sensational race horse the American turf has ever seen, won the rich Futurity at Sheepshead Bay to day. John A. Drake, a Western million aire, owns him; his trainer, Enoch Wish ard, is from the West, and Ryan, a Wes tern jockey, rode him to victory. August Belmont's Hastings colt. Lord of the Vale, was second, only an eye lash be hind, while Dazzling, one of the four Keene representatives, finished third. The time was 1:14, better than the Fu turity record over the full course, but a second and four fifths lower than the btjst -full six furlongs two year old record down the chute. Never was a more inspiring race wit nessed at beaujtiful Sheepshead, the gar den spot of the East; never was a crowd greater or enthusiasm more un bounded. Fifty thousand would be a close estimate to put on the multitude, for this was to be the greatest of all futurities. The prize was rich, the field large, its quality incomparable, and be fore the fall of the flag it looked as if anyone o ffhe dozen of the thorough breds had tn oven chance for the stake. Indeed, with the great field that need the starter, the greatest in number that ever struggled for the laurel wreath of championship, it seemed as though noth ing short of a miracle could bring them all safely through that six furlong journey, short though it was w r ith the crowding and bunching around the dangerous curve of the chute. They passed that point, however, like a troop of cavalry, and straightened out, came into the stretch in a swirl of dust. Savable and Lord of the Vale fighting it out to the last inch. It was Ryan’s good ride that carried his mount past the flying Belmont colt just at the wire. John A. Drake and the Western con tingent were confident that Savable would score, and they played him down from twenty, and in some books twenty five to fifteen. In such a surging mass as that which crowded the betting ring, with every man struggling to place his money, thousands were as units. Eager players seized what was thrust at them, and knew no East or West. It was the West, however, that rounded up the good thing of the day and came in at) night fall. Sheepshead never knew such a crowd as gathered there today. At noon the lower tier of the three deck grand-stand was crowded. Long before the bugle sounded the first race, all the tiers were filled with a mass of moving color. It was woman everywhere, costumed in filmy, brilliant gowns and bedecked with colors rare and radiant. Twenty thous and surged in the field and within and beyond the track rails there were thousands more. Thirty-one were carded to go, but Sovereign, Sir Voorheis, Dalesman, Lovenote, Royal Summons, Merry Acrobat and Medal were scratched. Bounding Beauty was added at a late moment by the Pepper stable, and a few minutes later {withdrawn. There were twenty four who went in to fight it out. The start was a ragged one, though better than had been expected. Lord of the Vale was among the first to break, with Savable and Hurstbourne and Daz zling right at his heels. Fire Eater, with Dogget tip, the only one that failed to go, was left standing at the post, half turned around. They flew like the wind down the hill, stretched out completely across the track, twenty-three in what seemed to be almost a straight line. Fully dozen, as they mounted the hill, were' bobbing up and down In per. feet rhythm and within reaching dis tance of each other. The hearts of the fifty thousand onlookers were throbbing now with the intensity of the excite ment. For a moment, a sthe racers straightened out, there was crowding it. the centre of that flying cavalcade. To go down meant death; a single misstep meant a frightful catastrophe. There wa shardly a sound in the sands, but a mighty shout went up when Dazzlins, carrying the spotted white of the Keenes, came first into the stretch and the others sprea dout for the dash down to the wire. McOuc touched Lord of the Y ale with the whip and the gallant son of Hastings sprang out to the front. Perhaps he made his run too soon, for he began to falter when hard challenged a moment ■ later, but recovered. Ihe goal was well 1 within sight and McCue began to ride ! like a fiend. The Whitney and Keene * candidates were pushing hint hard. There were cries of “Irish Lad. ’ and » “Golden Maxim,” and “Flying Prince," , and “Mizzen,” and a half hozen others. 16 PAGES— SECTION ONE—Pages 1 to 8. Savable, the son of Salvator, never was thought of. There were hoarse shouts for “Dazzling” and “Duster,” for “Ace ful” and “Payne” and “Whitechapel.” Yet one small group—they came from the west —had their strained eyes set for a glimpse of turquoise blue that seemed far back in the rear. Lyne (correct spelling) was ready, too, and Savable answered the tip of the spur and the swish of the whip across the gleaming flnak. He came out of the bunch like a thooughbred. Lyne lifted him with every leap, and inch by inch in the last sixteenth, he wore down the single length between him and victory. McCue tried desperately to stall off defeat. He swung his whip mercilessly, and with flaring nostrils Lord of the Vale, the pride of the Belmont stable, responded to every cut. But all in vain. Savable had his sires indomitable courage, he had his sires speed and his great heart. He poked his nose in front of Lord of the Vale just as they flew under the wire. August Belmont, watching the contest on the roof of the stand, never flinched. He sa*d: ' With another weeks' kork, Lord of the Vale would have won.” The value of the futurity Was, to the winner $45,400; to second $5,250; to third $2,750; in all $53,400. J. B. Haggin bred the winner. A SURPLUS PILING UP Treasury Receipts for August Exceed Expendi tures by Nearly Six Millions (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 30. —The receipts at the Treasury Department for the month of August, just closing, exceed the ex penditure by $5,055,812, an unexpectedly large surplus. The total receipts were $48,605,812 and the expenditures $12,650,- 600. For the same month of last year the total receipts were $45,394,125 and the expenditures $34,351,497. a surplus of a little over $6,000,000. The big surplus this month was attained in the face of heavy cut made by changes in the way of wiping off the books the taxes im posed on account of the war with Spain. This act of Congress decreased the re ceipts by something like $6,500,000 a month. In fact, in July the receipts from internal revenue fell off more than that figure ns a result of the cut. This month ttm reduction is not so lafge. The increase is over $5,000,000, showing that the country is buying more heavily abroad each month. In accordance with the suggestion of Secretary Shaw, national banks in the large cities are preparing to increase their circulation by the deposit of bonds. Since a few weeks ago when Secretary Shaw asked the banks to prepare to meet any emergency by increasing their circulation, the banks have notified the comptroller's office they want to stand ready for an in crease of $12,250,000. A large portion of this currency is now being printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and will be ready for the banks so soon as the deposit of bonds is made. MURDERED BY ROBB£RS. An Aged Couple Surprise the Nighthawks ai Their Work. (By the Associated Press.) I Gainesville, Fla., Aug. 30.—Mr. and I Mrs. Brit Lewis, residing five miles south of Bronson, were murdered last night by robbers. ' The aged couple had been calling on their son, who resides only a short dis tance from-where the killing took place. They'returned at n ; ght and surprised two robbers, who were in the act of opening a large iron safe in which the prosperous farmer kept his money. The son of Lewis heard shots in 'be direction of his father's house and rtn .at once to the place. When the son ar rived he found the dead body of his mother lying across the corpse of her husband near the entrance to the house. Both had been shot several times and then knocked in the head. GROWTH OF ASHEVILLE BROWN. Increase of Half a Million Dollar in Taxable Property (Special to News and Observer.) Asheville, N- C., Aug. 30.—Tax reports for the year will show wonderful growth for Asheville. An increase of half a million dollars in taxable property is shown. For the county the amount will be over eighty thousand. Geo. Van derbilt listed about one-quarter of a mil lion more this year than last. Ho pays tax now on $1,200,070 worth of property. His tax amounts annually to $12,007. GODWIN AND RICHARDSON. Nominated by Acclamation in the Fifieentb Senatorial District. (Special to News and Observer.) Dunn. N. <\, Aug- 30.—The fifteenth Senatorial district held its convention here today and H. L. Godwin, of Har nett, and YV. <\ Richardson, of Johnson, were nominated by acclamation. Both responded in bright speeches of accept ance. Hon. E. VV. Pou was called upon and made a strong speech. Collide in the North River. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Aug. 30. —The sidewheel steamer Saugertis, of the Saugertis Line, and the steam lighter Bessie, of Yonkers, collided in the North River today off Seventieth street, this city. The Sau gertis had a big hole stove in her port bow only a few inehe.s away from the water line. The Saugertis’ twenty-five passengers were asleep in their hunks when the collision occurred, attd for a short time there was considerable ex citement. The Bessie stood by and took off the passengers of the Saugertis and lauded them. PRICK FIVK CENTS. MUST WE WHIP THE BBITiICE AGAIN This is th3 Opinion of the Saturday Review, CHARGES US WITH GREED i . Seeking to Gobble Up Canada and South America. THIS WILL RESULT IN A TRIAL OF FORCE The Sp ctator Thin! s the Monroe Doctrine Good For Great Britain, Germany Surprised at Roost v Ids Strong Re;<fli'matron of the Doc f rine. (By the Associated Press.) Lndon, Aug. 30. —“A hated rivalry which may some day be settled by the arbitra ment of the sword,” seems to fairly sum up the Saturday Review's of the relations between Great Britain and the United Mates. Discussing President Roosevelt's pronouncement on Monroeism the always Utterly anti-American Saturday Review uses the President’s speech as a text on which to enunciate a long sermon on “American greed and hypocrisy” and the danger threatening the British empire from the United States’ future expansion. It says, in reviewing the history of the Monroe Doctrine: “It is unfortunate if not exceptional that the United States cannot be satis fied with the plain, straightforward pol icy of self-interest without attempting to explain it as a disinterested and highly moral position. It was on this basis that ibe war with Spain was undertaken, re sulting in the Philippines being annexed and Cuba being put under the heel. South America’s natural resources are enor mous, but the individual States can not act together. It is plain that they will’ rot long resist American extension south ward and American ‘protection* from European aggression will soon inoubato 'nto occupation by the United States.” Proceeding to discuss the effect of Monroeism on the British Empire, the Saturday Review says: “The United States is the only great power separated from the British Empire ;y nothing but a land frontier and it is the settled object of the United States to ultimately include Canada. The Uni ted States is commercially growing fast at our expense and judging from its pres nt progress the power of the United States in wealth and numbers will soon exceed that of any rival we have, possi bly excepting Russia, whose position in relation to us territorially js not nearly so critical. Under these circumstances it is surely clear that the power we need most to be concerned about Is Amer ica. Acute territorial and commercial rivalry always results in an ultimate trial by force. It is the only final settle ment. "There is no question of liking or dis liking Americans. It is simply a ques tion of which shall ultimately get the better of the other side.” A curiously divergent view is expressed by the Spectator on the same topic. It says: “We hold that the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine is as good for us as for 'he United States YVe, like the United Mates, have no desire to see the status quo violently altered by the efforts of continental European States to carve out •’or themselves colonial empires in Cen tral and South America. It would suit us no more than the United States to see Germany established in Southern Brazil or elsewhere on the Western Con tinent.” Proceeding to point out that Monroe ism cannot rest on air and that unless based ort power dt is sure to be pushed aside an 1 disregarded, th f * Spectator con tinues: “To make the doctrine effective Amer ica must build a fleet unquestionably stronger than that of France or Ger many. She need not trouble to outbuild us, as we not merely agree to but may be said to be passive supporters of the Monroe Doctrine." Germany is Mystified. (Bv the Associated Press.) Berlin, Aug. 30.—President Roosevelt's fresh declaration of the Monroe Rpctrim* has been received here with an air of wonder. The tone generally assumed is ■me of surprise that the doctrine should be re-affirmed so energetically at a mo ment when no European power disputes t, least of all Germany. Moreover, it is asserted that Germany gave her assent to the doctrine soon after President Roose velt's assumption of the Presidency and that the State Department has abundant knowledge that Germany does not even contemplate securing coaling stations in the Western Hemisphere. Some suspicious critics suggest that something must, be going on behind the diplomatic screen to occasion the President’s enunciation. Tim Foreign Office tells the correspondent of the Associated Press that official circles by no means share Hie newspaper excite ment. It reads the speech in connection with the definition of the doctrine con • ained in the President’s last message to * Congress, which thoroughly satisfies Ger many. The disposition in some quarters to regard President Roosevelt’s speech as directed against Germany Is wholly in ndmissahle, because Germany, as the - American Government knows, never de signed territorial acquisition on the -' American continent.