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♦ For Morth Carolina: ♦
Ishowors Fair.;
VOL. LII. NO. 140.
Leads all Mor*' OaFolina Bailies in Mews and
THE CAMPAIGN IS 0?P T
BY DEMOCRATIC JKERS
And Republican Sophistries Begin to Crumble in the
White Blaze of Truth Thrown
Upon Them.
STRONG ADDRESSES ON ALL THE ISSUES
Sledge Hammer Blows by'
Kitchin and Womack-
R IDICALS LEAVE A LEGACY OF DEFICITS
Judge Womack Shews Conclusively
That the Republicans Were Respon
sible for Extravagant Expenditures
With Which Pritchard Sought to
Saddle the Democrats. Hon. Robert
N. Page Delivers a Ringing Demo
cratic Speech, and Gives Cold Com
fort to the Republicans. State and
National Policies Discussed in Mas
terly Style by Judge R. W. Winston,
Dan Hugh McLean. Claude Kitchia,
Congressman Thomas and Many
Others.
In every section of North Carolina
yesterday the campaign began with the
presentation of Democratic truths by
able and eloquent people. The messages
they carried were of a State going for
ward in every respect, rehabilitated and
redeemed from a dark night of Republi
can-Fusion misrule.
The telegraphic reports tell of splendid
and delighted audiences, and of great
enthusiasm greeting the speakers. It was
a field day for Democracy.
KITCHIN AND POU AT SMITHFIBLD,
Great Speeches to The People Made at John
ston’s County Seal.
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Smithfield. N. C., Sept. 2.—The on
slaught against the Republicans and
their deluded allies, the “Independents,”
was begun with .ledge-hammer blows
here today when Congressman W. W.
Kitchin and Hon. T. B. Womack deliv
ered the sound doctrine of Democracy to
a splendid gathering of the people.
Congressman Kitchin’s speech was a
masterly and convincing effort. He dis
cussed trusts, imperialism and “Inde
pendents.” He showed how the trusts
were throttliug the people and fatten
ing upon them and how they had grown
so powerful as to dominate and rule the
Republican party, now in charge of na
tional affairs, and he told how neces
sary it was that the Democrats, opposed
to and fighting the trusts, should be
put iu charge of the government. His
discussion of Republican imperialism
and all the disasters which were com
ing in its train was convincing, and
when he discussed the matter of In
dependents” he laid on with liberal hand
and showed how their course was dan
gerous to the best interests of the coun
try and demoralizing in all respects.
John Atwater, who as an “Independent,’
seeks Congressional halls from this dis
trict, was in the audience, and he got
the benefit of a full broadside from the
eloquent and forceful speaker.
Mr. Kitchin was followed by Judge
T. B. Womack, who made a strong and
clear presentation of the financial con
dition of the State as between Fusion
and Democratic rule, and showed bow
the Republican-Fusion crowd was re
sponsible for deficits in the State
Treasury. It was a crushing blow to the
Republican claims made by Pritchard.
(The full text of Judge Womack’s
speech is given on page three of this
paper.)
JUDGE WINSTON AT GRAHAM-
Fe Deals Blows for the Income Tax and Othe r
Democratic Measures,
(Special to News and Observer.)
Graham, N. C., Sept. 2.—Ex-Judge R.
W. Winston addressed a good audience in
the court house here today at the noon
adjournment of court. He reviewed na
tional and State policies for the past
quarter of a century and denounced the
Republican Supreme Court for declaring
the income tax unconstitutional. He
made it very clear to his audience that
the Democratic party had always been
the friend of the common people and pre
dicted that it would yet live to bury
the Republican party as it had the Whig,
the Federalist and the Know-Nothing
parties.
He arraigned the Republican party for
not making concessions to the strug
gling Cubans, and said that we had left
them in as bad a fix as they were under
the Spanish regime. He denounced the
Republican party for fostering the trusts,
and showed that Mr. Roosevelt and At
torney General Knox were not sincere
in there pretended fight against these
corporations. He devoted much time to
State affairs and contrasted Russell’s ad
TheN ws and Ob.semi
ministration with Aycock’s. He paid a
high tribute to Governor Aycock and Joy
ner for their greqt work in behalf of
the school children of the State. His
speech was well received and will do
much to help bring about a great Defo
cratlc victory in Alamance county this
fall.
Extracts from Judge Winston’s speech
follow:
Since 1572, when the Democratic party
came into power in North Carolina, it
has given us peace and law and order,
strengthened our free schools and given
to each a four manths’ term. Our Gov
ernors. Senators, judges, Congressmen
and legislators have been clean, honest
and faithful public servants. We have
had no strikes as in Pennsylvania, no
riots as in Hay Market in Chicago, no
feuds in Kentucky, and we have just
and equitable laws.
North Carolina has an income tax.
Every cent above SI,OOO a man makes is
taxed 1 per cent by the State. If I make
$6,000 a year, I pay an income tax of SSO.
So under Democratic administration in
North Carolina the railroads have been
taxed, and under a Governor
a suit was brought, which took the Coast_
Line Railroad from the free list and put
it upon the tax list, thereby putting
thousands of dollars each year into the
treasury, and distributing the burden of
taxation.
But the great thing this party has done,
in much tribulation, hedged about by op
position and bitter white enemies, is to
preserve Anglo-Saxon civilization in
North Carolina and in the South. You,
men of Alamance, know what this means.
You remember the day when the inso
lence of negroes became unbearable.
You met, you organized, you swore a
bloody oath. The great Klu-Klux or
ganization was born. It was decreed that
North Carolina was to be a white State.
You said that you would not run, and
that you would not knuckle or bow the
knee —no. not to a dark and an inferior
race, neither to a tyrannical and over
bearing political party—the Radical
party—and your boldness, yes, the bold
ness of men of Alamance and Orange and
Caswell and Cleveland and Rutherford,
excited the admiration and wonder of
the civilized world. A people so bold in
defeat had not appeared in history. And
yet some men say that you ought to de
sert this old, good Democratic, con
servative party.
The Republican party in North Caro
lina has raised the specious cry of rings
and extravagance. They charge ex
travagance upon the Democratic , party
in North Carolina, and when asked to
specify they have not the nerve to say
what they mean. It is not the increase
of judges and the increase of the Gov
ernor’s salary that they attack. They
know that if it requires fourteen judges
to transact the business of one and one
half millions of people and one hundred
and seventy-five millions of money in
1892, it takes sixteen to perform in 1902
the same duties by one and three-quarter
millions of people and two hundred mil
lions of wealth. They know that if Gov
ernor Russell, who rarely’ left his home
in Raleigh, was worth to the State $3,000
a year, Charles B. Aycock, the gallant,
broad 1 , just educational Governor of this
great commonwealth —spending his life,
i his energy, his brain and his money for
the little children of Dare and Cherokee,
was and is worth the increase. It is not
these things that they attack, though
they so dqplare. It is really Confederate
pensions and school appropriations that
they attack. Do we not even hear Abe
Middleton, the negro door-keeper of a
Republican House, as he supplants a one
legged soldier, declare that the Confed
erate soldier has played out? Do we not
recall the fact that when they had charge
of our State affairs, they closed the
doors of the University and that educa
tion languished?
There is indeed one item of expense to
which the Republican leaders in North
Carolina do really and seriously object.
They object to the payment of money to
defend the Democratic election officials
in North Carolina, who were indicted in
the Federal courts for violating the elec
tion laws in 1890. These were the men
who made possible the passage of our
Constitutional Amendment. Had they
not been fearless and intrepid, had they
but shown for a moment the white
feather, the hordes of negroes in North
Carolina would have overrun the poles
and driven the whites away, and the
same old question of negro suffrage would
be again in politics. If they really ac
cepted in good faith the Constitutional
Amendment, they would not now be
quibbling and quarreling as to how it
was passed.
The Republican party was tried in 1868
and in 1870 and was found corrupt and
incapable. It made a bid for votes in
1896 and again it wen. The people in
large numbers voted with the Republi
cans, they said that the crimes of 1868
were barred by the statute of limitations,
and they tried the Republicans again.
With what result let the laws of *95 and
97 declare. I will not undertake to re
peat that dark and terrible Jiistory. You
know it, and you will not again be fooled
.iALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTUM HER 3 1902.
into voting with that party. When they
took away the charters of Wilmington
and Greenville, they traveled along the
same way which cost Charles I. hi 3
crown and his head.
Be of good cheer, my Democratic
friends, the Old North State is steadfast
of purpose and has some tar still left on
her heel. On the ides of November
next, we will roll up a majority of
50,000 votes for the entire ticket. On
every side we see signs that the party is
coming together. Study the men who
will compose the next Legislature. They
are wise and just and liberal, lhey will
act with wisdom and justice, both by the
rich and the poor; they will not oppress
the railroads, nor any other corporation,
and yet they will make all bear their
equal burdens. They have the confidente
of all classes. No panic can arise in any
business when these men gather at
Raleigh next winter.
In conclusion, let us say a word as to
our next national election. If Hill or
Gorman or Olney or any other great
Democratic leader, who rides no hobby,
is named, and if Senator Simmons or
some of our North Carolina Congress
men or Capt. E. S. Barker, the wise,
sagacious chairman of your Executive
Committee, can have a hand in writing
your national platform, we will assured
ly win.
While both parties are in a state of un
rest, the Republican national party is
the more torn of the two. In less thau
three months Mr. Roosevelt, who is an
honest and courageous man, will lack the
enthusiastic support of Mr. Hauua and
men of his kind, and a level headed can
didate named by us will again fill the
White House.
Hon. Charles R Thomas Speaks.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Burgaw, N. C., Sept. 2—Congressman
Charles R. Thomas, in his speech here
yesterday said among other things:
When the Republican party in tluir
Greensboro platform referred to the ad
ministration of the State government b>
the Republicans and Populists as “clean,”
they neutralized in great measure the
effect of every other plank in their plat
form. The people remember too well the
flagrant misrule and scandals of that ad
ministration. We accept most willingly
their challenge and the people will never
sustain them upon that issue.
Their declaration in the Greensboro
platform is: “If Senator Simmons and
Governor Aycock will keep their prom
ises to the people the negro question
will be out of the realm of politics, etc.”
The realm of politics, said Mrr.
Thomas, is a very wide realm, and this
declaration of the Republican platform
leaves the Republican leaders the loop
hole and opportunity to do as they please.
The purpose is to secure a division of
the white vote if possible, by this am
biguous platform declaration.
Until we are sure of our position, it
is the duty of white men and Democrats
to stand together for the protection of
the amendment and for good government.
He showed the record of the Democratic
party in North Carolina since Fusion
rule; the additional expenditures charged
up to us by our opponents as reckless
extravagance were for education, charity,
the Confederate soldier. We have given
the children of the State a four months'
school; we have housed the insane in
the jails in asylums, where they can
have the benefit of God's air and sun
light; we have spent for all these worthy
objects but little more than the Repub
lican party in Congress has appropriated
4n North Carolina annually to pension
deserters from the Confederate army.
The whole additional tax for all these ob
jects imposed by the Democratic party
would be thirty cents for each one of our
population. How insignificant this small
amount compared with the objects of the
appropriation. Will they charge us with
“extravagance” when, if we borrowed to
meet the needs of the State two hundred
thousand dollars they left a deficiency of
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
selling the, State’s bonds accumulated
for the sinking fund and running the
penitentiary behind one hundred and ten
thousand dollars.
The issues of the campaign
are all embodied in the State
Democratic platform. In the State
they are protection of the amendment
and good government to which the Dem
ocratic party pledges itself in its State
platform.
In national politics the issues are by
common consent in North Carolina and
the nation, tariff reform, trusts and the
foreign policy of the Republican party,
which is drifting us toward the British
colonial system.
Never before has the Republican party
drifted so far in the direction of abso
lute surrender to special interests and
the strong centralized government. It
regards the Constitution as a piece of
india rubber to be .stretched to suit Re
publican ideas and theories. When it
suits them it is to be construed to per
mit bounties and robbery of the Ameri
can taxpayers and consumers by the
highest kind of tariff, so that the trusts
may flourish; so that one half of the
Republic shall be free States and Terri
tories £nd citizens and the other part
island possessions and colonists.
Mrr. Thomas discussed tariff reform,
showing that goods manufactured by the
trusts and highly protected manufactur
ing interests are sold from 25 to 40. in
some instances one hundred per cent
cheaper in foreign markets, than to the
American consumer and taxpayer.
Referring to the trusts, Mr. Thomas
showed the insincerity of the Republican
party on this great question by. First—
The growth of the trusts under the Ding
ley law and the McKinley and Roosevelt
administrations. Second —The surrender
to the Sugar trust when the Cuban re
ciprocity bill was before Congress last
winter. Third—Failure and the refusal
of the Republican party to pass any
anti-trust law or to strengthen the Sher
man law of 1890. ,
He then took up the foreign policy of
the Republican party, and discussed fully
POCAHONTAS MIKES
FIRED BY STRIKERS
And Guards and Miners Ex
change Volleys.
APPEALS FOR TROOPS
Governor* of Both the Virginias Ex
pected to Respond.
THE RABY MINE IS STILL BURNING
The Fire is Now Believed, How ver to be Un
der Control. All the Entranc* sto the
Mine Are Heavily
Guarded.
(By the Associated Press.)
Brarnwell. W. Va., Sept. 2. —The great
mines of the Pocahontas Collieries Com
pany are on fire. Strikers are said to
have applied the torch to various portions
of the mine near the west entrance,
which is on the Virginia side and the
mine began burning furiously.
The guards and strikers fired volley af
ter volley at each other. The Governor
of Virginia has been appealed to to send
troops to Pocahontas at once.
At 2 o’clock this afternoon officials of
the Pocahontas Coal Colliery Company
claim that the fire in their leading mine
is practically under control and they ap
prehend but little more damage. Three
strikers afe reported injured, the result
of the conflict with tb guards soon after
the fire was discovered.
The mine in wT*)-’ the fire is in prog
ress is • • Baby mine and is
the sai tich twenty miners
and a m - :iuls lost their lives
several md the same where
two hu i u■ ' lost their lives a
dozen } ' It is the largest on
the lie f Norfolk and Western
and ha m es. Every entrance
is now ’ • • guarded. Mine offi
cials e ernors of both Vir
ginia and \ inia to comply with
their r ques* ops.
Roam! V September 2. —In-
formal t eh here today to the
effect on S. rday night striking
miners * he ant of the Russell
Creek.
Company, near Virginia City, in Wise
county. The tipple, which was a very
large building, wac totally destroyed, and
the engine house and a number of other
buildings were burned to the ground. A
number of loaded coal cars were also
burned. So far as could be learned, no
arrests have yet been made, and there is
no clue as to who fired the plant.
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its injustice and its dangers to the Re
public; the dangers to the South in the
development of agricultural countries
producing the South's crops, cotton, sugar
and tobacco with cheap labor. He show
ed the value of the trade of the Philip
pines was greatly exaggerated and the
salaries alone paid to maintain our gov
ernment there would approximate the
present trade, if we secured it all. The
policy was costing us three hundred mil
lions annually and many human lives.
McLEAN AWAKES ENTHUiIASM-
Contrast Between Republican and Democratic
Management of State Affairs
(Special to News and Observer.)
Salisburry, N. C., Sept. 2. —Hon. Dau
Hugh McLean spoke here today to a good
crowd. His speech was one of the most
effective ever heard in Salisbury and en
thused to the highest pitch the unterrl
fied Democracy of Rowan. Mr. McLean
contrasted the Republican and Demo
cratic management of the State affairs,
showing that the Republicans were in
competent, while Democrats were always
capable and patriotic in their adminis
trations. The * independent movement
was scored as a subterfuge on the part
■ of Republicans to divide the Democrats.
The speech throughout was one of
earnest, convincing, logic and left a pro
found impression. Mrr. McLean has been
invited to deliver two more speeches in
Rowan during the campaign.
WEBB BPEAKI AT BAKEBBVILLE.
“Veracious Figures Explode Boastod Eepub
lican Prosperity,” He Declares.
(Special to News and Observer )
Bakorsville, N. C., Sept. 2.—The De
mocracy of Mitchell was well represented
here today, and the clear, forceful ad
dress of Hon. E. Y. Webb as he expounded
the doctrines of Democracy and con
trasted them with those of Republicanism
was heard with closest and
greeted with round after round of ap
plause.
After an able, beautifully worded and
eloquent defense of the expenditures of
the Legislature of 1901, and a pointed
arraignment of the inconsistencies of
the Republican party in criticizing those
epeuditures, Mr. Webb passed to the
question of “Republican Prospertiy,”
and in this connection, said:
“Veracious figures explode boasted
Republican prosperity. The full dinner
pail is not so full as it once was. A
year’s supplies for a single individual
cost $77.78 on the first of January, 1896,
and the same articles purchased Jan
uary Ist, 1900, four years later, cost
$101.56, or an increase in the cost of living
of 26 per cent. A man working for
SI.OO per day had to work 77% days
for this year’s supplies in 1896, and in
1900, when he received SI.OB per day, he
had to toil 94 days for the very same
bill of supplies. A day’s work meas
ured by the cost of tlie necessaries of
life today, is cheaper than at any time
Bince the first day of July, 1896. A bill
of supplies including the necessaries of
life costing $60.00 in 1897, cost in 1901
$76.80, which is aji increase to the con
sumer of 28 per cent. Paid forwn wheat in
1897 it required 75 bushels, wmen in 1901
it required 105 bushels to pay the bill.
Paid for in cotton in 1897, it required
839 pounds, while in 1901 it required
895 pounds-”
Coming to the subject of trusts, Mr.
Webb said:
“The chief cause for the increase in
the cost of living is the tariff-fostered
trusts. These trusts sell almost every
article which we eat and wear, and al
most every farm implement cheaper in
foreign countries than to our own peo
ple, denying us the right to buy as
cheaply as Arabs, heathens and aliens.
“The Republicans denounced trusts in
their platform, but let us see their sin
cerity on this vital question. In the
Fifty-sixth Congress, they pigeon-holed
an anti-trust bill rather than let it come
to a vote. In the last Congress the Sen
ate killed an anti-trust amendment by a
strictly party vote, the Democrats vot
ing for the amendment and the Repub
licans against it. This amendment too
was in accordance with a recommenda
tion of the President in his message to
Congress.”
“If when Adam was created the Al
mighty had given him a salary of $22,-
000 a year, and Adam had been so
frugal as not to spend one cent of his
income, these six thousand years of
salary would .not make him worth as
much as this’steel trust has made off
the people in oue short twelve months—
sl4o,ooo,ooo.”
“A few months ago one man conclud
ed to raise the price of beef, and upon
his assessment of the American people,
millions fell - into his coffers, while in
the shadow of this greas trust, starva
tion and despair stalked among the peo
ple. and fought with increasing keen
ness ‘against the citadels of human
life.’ This robbery flourished in the
city of Washington, in the face of an
anti-trust law, while a Republican
President and Attorney-General sat
quietly by, and watched the spoliation
go on. never suggesting to a Republi
can Congress, then in session, that this
infamy could be stopped at once by
abolishing the tariff on the products
which the beer trust controlled.”
The Republican Protective Tariff was
next shown up in its true colors, in part
as follows:
“The most prolific breeder of these
vampire combiifations is the Republi
can Protective Tariff. We demand that
every trust controlled article shall be
put upon the free list- This will do
more to dissolve trusts than all the civil
suits that can be brought, but the Re
publican party refuses to reduce the
tariff on such articles and hence we
must suffer and be patient. A protective
i tariff is an unconstitutional tax, bur-
I dening every citizen and enriching only
a few. It restrains every man from
| buying in markets to his best advan
tages and compels him to purchase
1 where prices are highest.”
) ‘‘Our Southern farmers are compelled
j to sell their cotton in foreign markets,
| where they compete with the world. Our
I cotton manufacturers sell their product
i in China and other foreign countries,
and therefore come in competition with
, every manufacturing nation of the
earth: but most of the articles which
we buy from Northern manufacturers
and trusts are on the protected list,
which enables them to fix prices for us
at whatever figures their greed may
dictate or their conscience permit. The
South's commercial existence depends
upon free and open markets, for both
our raw material and our cotton manu
factures.”
The Philippine question was touched
upon in a vigorous, virile way:
“Last February, the Republican party
in the United States Senate voted
against a resolution declaring our op
-1 position to holding the Philippine Islands
permanently or to annexing them as a
part of our country, which leaves the
policy of the Republican party in the
. Philippines a matter of open conjecture.
Their policy now seems to be to hold
them indefinitely as conquered prov
j inces, and to overrun them with carpet
baggers of the civil war type. The
I Democratic party demands that as soon
1 as a stable government is established
' there, we shall take our hands off the
islands and bid them God’s speed, re
serving to ourselves proper and ample
coaling stations, and commercial treaty
relations.
“From a financial point of view,
holding these islands is and will be a
colossal failure. Already they have
cost us more than a half million dol
lars, not to speak of the pensions for
soldiers who have lost their health, and
wives who have lost their husbands in
the islands. To hold them, would cost
in the future, as much as fifty million
dollars annually, and we would not re
| ceive in return more thau $300,000. It
; is not necessary to hold them to obtain
| markets, although this argument is
' made by Republican speakers for the
purpose of misleading the unwary
manufacturer, and enlisting his sym
pathies on the side of Republican
policies.
“Cotton is cheaply and easily raised
over there, and to hold the islands per
manently would mean their exploitation
by enterprising Americans and syndi
cates, and very soon cotton mills would
spring up all over the island, operated
by labor which can live in luxury on
20 cents per day, and very soon these
enterprises would become our dangerous
rivals in the sale of cotton manufac
tures to China, for Hong Kong is only
600 miles from the Philippines, while
we are 7,000 miles away.”
Mr. Webb concluded as follows:
“The record of the Republican party
is one of crime and corruption, from the
theft of a President's office to the em
balmed beef scandal, the stealings of
Rathborne and Neely to the court mar
tials in Manila, all the way; but the
history of the Democratic party is one
of glory and honor, and her future mis
sion is even grander to preserve our Re
public, protect our people and stand for
human liberty everywhere.”
HON. J, M GUDGEE SPEAKS
A Clean, Forceful Presentation of Doctrines
and Issues
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Robbinsville, N. C., Sept. 2. —There
was a great outpouring of people at this
place to hear the address of Hon. J. M.
Gudger, Jr. His speeeh was powerful,
pointed and full of the earnestness that
is convincing. He did not juggle with
words but went directly to the root of
things, showing so plainly the results
of Republican-Fusion misrule on the
one hand and of Democratic manage
ment on the other that no one could
possibly need clearer light upon these
matters.
\
Mr. Gudger said in part: In 1868 the Re
publican party had complete control in
every department of the State govern
ment. Incompetency and corruption were
the crowning characteristics of the par
ty’s history, and no man in this day will
attempt to defend the administration
from ’6S to ’7O.
The Democratic party has administered
the State’s affairs for a quarter of a
century, during Which time hundreds of
miles of railroads have been built, pub
lic institutions have been enlarged and
new ones established, and in all this long
period not a single instance of corruption
can be cited.
In 1900 a great crisis in the history of
the State had been reached. The ten
dency of the negro to demand his so
called “rights” at elections endangered
one-third of the counties of this great
State and negro domination was immi
nent. The Democratic party bravely ad
vocated an amendment to the constitu
tion which eliminated this perilous dan
ger, and the people of North Carolina,
adopted this amendment by an over
whelming majority.
The school houses dotted all over the
State with thousands of children gather
ing together on the hillsides and in the
valleys are unmistakable evidences of
Democ- atic rule. The whistle of the
steam engines and the hum of the fac
tories heard everywhere speak in clarion
notes of Democratic prosperity. The de
velopment and growth in every part of
ill is State is an assurance that the peo
ple have implicit confidence in the wis
dom and integrity of the Democratic
party.
The Democratic party stands for a
clean, upright judiciary, for the protec
tion and care of the unfortunate insane,
for the education of the deaf and dumb
and blind of the State, for a longer
school term than has ever beer, known in
the history of the State, for the main
tenance of the unfortunate and decrepit!
Confederate soldier, for the protection of
the weak against the strong, for justice
to all mankind.
The Republican leaders are attempting
to prejudice the people against the Demo
cratic administration by drawing a com
parison of Republican-Fusion rule —with
that of Democratic rule—in the way of
expenditures. They fail to tell the peo
ple that they had a deficit of two hun
dred an! fifty thousand dollars in the
State Treasury, and that they left the
penitentiary in debt one hundred and ten
thousand dollars. The Democratic party
has appropriated in three years for school
purposes $600,000. $140,000 for the insane
and $200,000 for the disabled Confederate
soldiers in excess of the appropriations
theretofore made.
Mr. Gudg?r then touched upon national
issues, the imperialistic policy of the
administration in the Philippines; the
vast and steadily growing power of
trusts and combinations enriching the
few and pauperizing the many and
threatening the very foundations of our
system f government; the reckless and
extravagant appropriations made by the
Republican Congress. He said in con
clusion:
"Let the people who believe in a pru
dent, eoononiical adminstration cf our
National affairs respond at the ballot
box in November.
“Let the declaration be heralded to
every portion of this broad land that we
must not, and will not. have any more
billion dollar Congresses.”
HENDEB3ON AT LiNCOLNTON.
The Able Speaker Discusses Fully The Issues
of The Campaign
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Lincolnton, N. C., Sept. 2.—There was
a great gathering of the true and tried
Democracy of Lincolnton county hero
today, when Hon. John S. Henderson,
of Salisbuy, opened the campaign at
this place. The immense crowd was ap
preciative and enthusiastic* and was most
orderly and well behaved.
In his admirable speech Mr. Hender
son covered a wide *cope, embracing in
his remarks the following subjects:
Cuban Reciprocity, the Philippine Prob
lem, Subsidies and Trusts and the
State Government, including the educa
tion of the children of the State, pen
sions to Confederate soldiers and pro
visions for the insane, and the deaf,
dumb and blind. He attacked the reck
less, extravagance of the Republican
Congress, and justified the expenditure
of $453,000 by the Democratic State ad
ministration for the education of the
masses and the pensioning of Confeder
ate soldiers.
“Appropriations for this cause.” he
said, “must not be reduced, but be con
tinuer, and if possible increased wlth
(Continued on Second Page.)
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The
sional Campaign !
THE VOLUMEJUSnfIHp |
Equal Rights to All, Special®
leges to None.
THIS SLOGAN EMBLAZONS TITLE PM s
It is Devoted Chit fly to a Discussion of tH
Trusts arid imperialism, But There is l|
No Lack of Other Strong
Matter. ;
(By the Associated Preai.) »
Washington, D. €., Sept. 2.—The Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign Book
which made its appearance today is a
volume of 384 pages, the major portion W
of which is devoted to the discussion of ■
imperialism and trusts, 240 pages being
devoted to these two topics, 115 to the 1
former and 125 to the latter. Upon the
title page is the Democratic slogan,
“Equal rights to all, special privileges to
none.” The volume opens with the plat
form cf 1900 and the resolutions adopted
by the Democratic members of the House
at their conference, June 19, arraigning
the Republican party for failure to give
relief to Cuba and to enact proper anti
trust legislation. Then follows an ex
tended criticism of the Republican Cam
paign Book, many statements contained
therein being challenged as to accuracy,
especially those dealing with the trust
question. Under the head of Imperialism
there is a general review of the
Philippine policy under the following
heads: “Attempts to divert the issue,
rartisan censorship, War Department
policy of suppression, farcical investiga
tions, War Department Investigation and
that of Senate contrasted, a court mar
tial stopped because it would prove too
much, court martial trials a farce, cruelty
committed and encouraged, crimes of war
and not of soldiers, American expansion,
versus Roman imperialism, colonialism
and trade, statistics against colonialism.
Keep American capital at home, the bur
dens of militarism, Philippine venture
beginning of general policy of colonial
ism, our war-like President, Philippines
a source of weakness, shall we spend peo
ple's taxes at home or in distant lands,
a government for and
spoliation, statehood for the Philippines.”
This review is succeeded by chapters
on General Miles and the administration,
disgraceful record of the military au
thorities at both ends of the line in
the Gardener case, the Smith court mar
tial. torture as a policy, review of evi
dence involving the War Department and
certain army officers in the Philippines
in violation of the laws of war, the sys
tem, not the individual to blame, De
mocracy the remedy for barbarities, fun
damental objections to the Philippine
Government Act, slavery and polygamy
under the protection of the flag, and vice
and loathome disease in the Philippines.
The chapters on the tariff and trusts
are crowded with statistics and figures,
much attention being devoted to an at
tempt to show that protected trusts and
manufacturers get the benefit of all the
tariff in our markets and sell in foreign
markets at greatly reduced prices. Fac
similes of export price lists are given
and comparisons are made with domestic
prices of like articles. A number of big
trusts are discussed in detail to shew
(that they sell their products abroad
much cheaper than at home and the whole
question is summarized in a chanter on
the evils of protected trusts, which Is
subdivided as follows:
1. Political corruption.
2. Watered stock.
3 Concealment of export prices.
4. Juggled and manufactured statistics!
The records of the two parlies on the
trust question are contrasted.
generally is denounced as a “humbug.”
The remainder of the volume is devo
ted to a variety of subjects, including
government by injunction, the Ship Sub
sidy Bill, Chinese Exclusion, Foreign Af
fairs and the Schley caße.
ASHEVILLE POSTOFFICK ROBFEt).
The Safe Flown Open With Nitro Glycerine-
The Officials Investigating.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Asheville, N. C., Sept. 2.—Experienced
safe crackers entered the postoffice here
last night, and blew open the safe
nitro glycerine, securing one hundred and W
thirty dollars in cash and seven hundred
in stamps. The officials are working oa J
< lews, which give indications of results. I
which will solve the robberies in thin M
section for the past three years. ;
Southern League.
Atlanta, 0; Memphis, 8. MBk
Birmingham, 0; Little Rock. 3.
Chattanooga, 3; New Orleans. 4.
Nashville, 4; Shreveport, 3.
Eastern League. JJHI
Worcester, 6; Providence, 4.
Buffalo. 9; Montreal, 6. j
ersey City, 13: Newark, 0. ;j
Toronto. 17; Rochester, 3. '
(Second game)—Toronto, 7; Roches
ter, 4. t