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ROOSEVELT AT
ASHEVILLE
The Zeb Vance Veterans and
Military Form His
Escort.
CHILDREN SING AMERICA
The President Aroused to Enthusiasm
by His Trip Trough Western
Carolina.
WARM GREETINGS ARE ACCORDED HIM
He Refers to Vance, the Mecklenburg Decla
ration, the Deeds of Carolinians in
Peace and War, Industrial
Awakening of the South
(By the Associated Press.)
Asheville, N. C., Sept, ft.—Asheville
extended a warm greeting - to President
Roosevelt today. Fully ten thousand
people occupied the court house square,
where the President addressed them from
an improvised stand. The special train
arrived here at 9:30 o'clock. The night
was passed at Hot Springs and the run
from there to Asheville this morning
was uneventful- A short stop was made
at Marshall, the home of Senator
Pritchard, where a large number of peo
ple had assembled. The President
thanked them for their greeting.
At Asheville he was met by a recep
tion committee, of which Charles Mc-
Namee was chairman. Mayor Miller,
Senator Pritchard and Congressman
Moody were among those who greeted
the President, the members of the com
mittee being introduced to the President
in his car by Senator Pritchard. Car
riages were in waiting and under the
escort of Zeb Vance Company Confeder
ate Veterans, carrying battle flags and
two companies of State militia and the
First Regiment Band, the party started
for the court house square. At aßttery
Park the school children were assem
bled on the lawn and sang “America”
as the party passed.\ President Roose
velt stood in his carriage bareheaded.
The city r was and
hundreds of people had conic in from
the country to greet the President.
When the President was introduced by
Chairman McNamee he was enthusias
tically greeted.
The President said:
“Mr. Chairman. Mr. Gudger, and you.
my fellow Americans:
“It is indeed a pleasure to have the
chance of saying a word of greeting to
you this morning, to speak here in th?
midst of your beautiful country of
Western North Carolina, in this beau
tiful city in front of the monument raised
to Senator Vance (Applause), and to be
addressing people whose forefathers
have borne a distinguished part In every
great military or civic struggle through
which this country has come. (Ap
plause). It was not far from here, as
we measure distance in America, that
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde
pendence was formulated. (Applause).
The gentleman who introduced me spoke
of the great deeds of the men who in
the Revolutionary War followed Mar
ion and McDowell. My forefathers
fought under Marion (Applause), my
forefathers fought with the Georgia and
South Carolina troops, who battled
throughout dark days when Cornwallis
and the Red Dragoons overran the
Southern States. They were present at
King's Mountain, at the Cowpens, and
they saw the final triumph when the men
in blue and buff, who followed Greene,
wrested victory out of defeat, and when
at last the flag of the thirteen Union
States, who had been the thirteen colo
nies. waved without a rival along the
coast and along the foothills of the
mountains. (Applause). It has been a
great and peculiar pleasure to be greet
ed as I was today by the men who
served in the Confederate Army. Yes
terday and today I travelled through a
region which sent its sons, some to wear
the blue, some to wear the gray, all to
serve with courage and self-devotion the
right as it was given to each to see tho
right., The day before yesterday I went
over the battlefields of Cbickamauga
and of Chattanooga. Over that space of
territory which saw for two ymonths one
of the gigantic death wrestles of the
Civil War, the territory partly in Ten
nessee, partly in my mother's State of
Georgia (Applause); and I feel that the
man would be but a poor American who
did not come from the scenes commem
orating the valiant deeds of those armies
a better American than when he started.
When I was there a delegation of young
men from the State of Georgia came to
present me a cane cut from the battle
field with the names of three Union and
three Confederate Generals on it. One
of the Union Generals. General Boynton,
was showing me around the field. One
of the Confederate Generals. General Joe
Wheeler, had been my chief in the Span
ish War. (Applause.) esterday we
stopped at a little station in Tcnnesse.
and among those who gathered to greet
me was an old fellow who had worn the
Gray. He said: ‘I was one of Wheel-
| er's boys.' I said: ‘So as I.’ (Laugh
ter and applause).
“It is a good thing for an American
President to have the chance to travel
through the different sections of the
country, because it is a mighty good
thing for any American to meet his fel
low Americans at different parts of the
country in order that he may realize how
trivial are the points of unlikeness and
how essential are the points of likeness.
(Applause.) A good American is a good
American, and I don’t care a snap of my
finger whether he comer from the North
or the South or the East or the West.
If he is a straight and decent man I am
for him, and if he isn’t, T am not. (Ap
plause).
“Oh, my friends the lesson of brother
hood, the lesson that is taught by such
a greeting as I am receiving at this mo
ment, 'he lesson that is taught whenever
you see valiant and true men who wore
ihe blue meet valiant and true men who
wore the gray and shake hands with them,
that lesson applies through all our na
tional life, and It applies just as much
in forming a judgment between class and'
class as between section and section.
We never can succeed in making this
country what it can and shall be made
until we work together, not primarily as
Northerners or Southerners, Easterners
or Westerners, not primarily as employe
cr employed, townsman or countryman,
capitalists or wage-workers, but primarily
as American citizens. (Applause.) To
whom the right of brotherly friendship
and comradeship will all other decent
American citizens comes as the first and
greatest of privileges. We need good
laws, we need honest and upright admin
istration of the laws, but we need as the
fundamental prerequisite for good gov
ernment a high average standard of citi
(Continued on Page Two.)
CftPT, M'REE DEAD
State Engineer Found Dead
l.i Lumberton.
Apoplexy Caused His Death, n Resolutions
Adopted Yesterday Bv the Board
of Education.
The following special was received hero
yesterday:
“Lumberton, N. C., Sept. 9, 1902.
“Capt. J. H. McKee, the State Survey
cr, was found dead in his room at the
Hotel Columbia this morning. He was
here as a witness in an important law
suit. He retired about twelve o clock last
n'ght, seemingly in good health, but fail
ing to answer the knocks on his door this
morning, an entrance was gained by
forcing open the door, and his corpse
was found on the floor near a window.
Apoplexy was the cause of his death.
The remains were carried to Wilmington,
his home, for interment.”
A special meeting of the Board of Edu
cation was called immediately that the
information of Capt. McKee’s death
reached the city yesterday morning. The
following resolutions were adopted:
“Whereas, The State Board of Educa
tion has learned with sincere grief and
deep regret of the death of the State
Engineer, Capt. J. H. Mcßee, therefore
he it resolved:
“First. That in his death this board
and the State of North Carolina have
lost the services of a faithful, conscien
tious and efficient officer.
“Second. That we tender to the mem
bers of the bereaved family our warmest
sympathy and ask for them, in this dark
hour, the comfort that eometh only from
on High.
“Thirl. That a copy of these resolu
tions be spread on the minutes of the
State Board of Education and that copies
be sent :o the bereaved family and to the
State papers.
Yesterday afternoon Capt. John Duck
ett, chief clerk in ihe Department of
Public Instruction, went to Wilmington
to take charge of the maps, charts fjnd
other documents of importance which
were in the possession of Captain Mc-
Ree.
Capt. J. H. Mcßee was State Engineer
and also agent in charge of the public
lands in the possession of the Board of
Education. He had been surveying these
lands and making maps and charts for
the use of the board.
Captain Mcßee’s home was in Wilming
ton. He tvas fifty years of age and leaves
a wife and two daughters.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wilmington, N. C.. Sept. 9. —Capt.
Joseph Hill Mcßee, State Surveyor of
Public Lands, was found dead in his
room this morning about & o’clock at
the Columbia Hotel, Lumberton, N- C.,
whither he went Sunday to appear as a
witness in an important land suit sot
for a hearing at this week’s term of
Robeson Superior Court. Proprietor W.
O. Thompson of the hotel first discovered
the death. A porter who went to wake
(he guests for breakfast as usual, came
down stairs and informed Mr. Thompson
that no response could be received from
Capt. McKee's room. ’I he proprietor at
once went to the room and again failing
a response, be forced the door and found
the defeased lying face downward about
half way between his bed and a window,
hieh he had evidently gotten out of bed
to hoist. A physician pronounced death
as the result of apoplexy. The remains
ere brought to the home of the deceased
here today and will be buried after fun
eral services from St. James Episcopal
church tomorrow.
Accompanying the remains of Capt.
Mcßee to Wilmington today was the
following deputation of prominent Robe
son citizens: Sheriff Geo. B. McLeod,
Stephen Mclntyre, Gilbert B. Patterson
and E* A. White, Esq.
Children are happy because they have
not learned the art of being miserable.
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10. 1902.
ASSAULT ON EDIIOH
MERRITT
Ex-Congressman Blackburn
Attacks Him in Lobby of
Battery Park Hotel.
(Special to Charlotte Observer.)
Asheville, N. C., Sept. 8. —A sensational
list fight occurred here tonight at the
Battery Park Hotel, where a large num
ber of men of prominence are assembled
to await the arrival of the President to
morrow. Editor Fred Merritt, of the
Citizen, this afternoon published the fol
lowing;
> “The Roxboro Courier says that a
Northern paper prints a sensational
story to the effect that the financoe of
Congressman E. Spencer Blackburn de
clares that their wedding is conditional
rpon nis re-election to Congress. If
that is true, then there'll be no wed
ding—unless the ‘Drummer Boy’ chooses
another bride.”
Tonight when Ed'tor Merritt entered
the lobby of the hotel Congressman
Blackburn, who had for hours been on
the lookout for the object of his anger,
made a lunge at him. The assault on
Merritt was probably unexpected for by
standers say that the Congressman
struck him several blows in the face
before he began to retaliate in kind.
A scene of wild confusion followed.
Many ladies ran from the lobby, while
men rushed forward to stop Blackburn.
One cf the first to take hold of him
was an Alabama gentleman in evening
Got lies. He had scarcely touched the
infuriated Congressman before he was
knocked down by H. C. Cowles, of
Statesville. Senator Pritchard also stop
ped forward and made it known that no
one must interfere with Blackburn while
he was resenting an insult not only to
Blackburn himself but to the Congress
man’s inteuded bride. Senator Pritchard
said afterwards that every lady in the
hotel approved of Mr. Blackburn's course,
S. I). Gibbs, of Hyde county, who at last
succeeded in separating the combatants,
said that Mr. Merritt's face was covered
with blood as he was being led to his
room.
FOUGHT LIKE A MAD BULL-
A Number of Men Have a Terrific Strnggle
With a Gigantic Negro
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 9. —A negro
giant named Wm. Evans, who keeps a
cook shop in an alley here, came near
vanquishing an entire company of the
fire department, a corps of six or eight
policemen and a number of citizens yes
terday. He was finally landed in the
police barracks and later sent to the
hospital, but not until after his head
had been laid open with a big wagon
spoke in the hands of a special officer.
He was using loud and profane lan
guage in the presence of white ladies on
a street car when a young man named
Lonnie Smith asked the conductor of the
car to put him off. The negro had been
drinking and invited Mr. Smith to put
him off, applying a vile epithet to him.
Mr. Smith dealt the negro a terrific blow
which landed both of them on the
ground in front of Engine Hose Com
pany No. 1. where half a dozen firemen
with special police power are regularly
on duty.
The firemen interfered with the fight
and the negro giant, who tveighs about
250 pounds, “waded into them” and kept
them off as fast as they came. One of
them brought the wagon spoke into ac
tion and felled him to the ground, but
in she meantime the police patrol -wagon
got on the scene with half a dozen po
licemen, and the negro having revived,
a second struggle ensued. He was at
length overpowered and taken to the
station house, where several officers were
required to hold him while his wounds
were dressed by Dr. Harper, the city
surgeon. He hadn’t given up last night
at the hospital and had to be strapped
and hand-cuffed to tho bed.
SmaU Pox in Kernersville.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Winston-Salem, N. C., Sept. 9. — Dr.
Bynum, county physician, accompanied
by Dr. Herrill. smallpox expert, went
to Kernersville today to investigate the
smallpox scare. There are a number of
cases in that town and for several weeks
the disease has been spreading rapidly.
The local authorities failing to take the
matter in hand, the State Board of
Health decided to send Dr. Harrell there
and establish lays that would stamp out
the diesase.
Salem Female College opened its one
hundred and first annual session today
with over three hundred pupil enrolled.
Principal Clewell is confident that four
hundred w ill soon be reached. *A pleas
ing feature of opening exercises was
charming scientific address by Prof. A.
H. Patterson, of the University of Geor
gia, on, “Is Mars Inhabited?”
Superior Court in Bertie.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Windsor, N. C., Sept. 9.—The Superior
court of Bertie county convened here to
day, His Honor Geo. A. Jones, presiding.
His charge to the jury was not only
comprehensive, but an eloquent effort,
judge Jones has measured up to the full
expectations of the people in the dis
charge of his duties as a judicial officer.
The docket, both civil and criminal, at
this term is small and it is expected
that court will adjourn by the middle of
. the w-eek.
IHEY DRINKOFACUP
THAT KILLS
Two Young Men Disappointed
in Love End Their Lives
By Poison.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Dover, N. C., Sept. 9.—Jealousy, the
green-eyed monster on the one hand, and
disappointment in love on the other,
prompted Josephus Thigpen and J. O.
Griffin, two prominent young business
men here to commit suicide. Thigpen
died at 9 o’clock last night, Griffin at 2
o’clock this morning. The drug taken
that sent the young men across the river
is not known, but Dr. Pridgen, of Kin
ston,, who was called in, says the symp
toms were similar to those produced by
chloral. The young men themselves said
they had, on Sunday, drunk schiedam
schnapps.
Dr. Ray Pollock, the resident physi
cian, called to see Thigpen yesterday
morning and found him suffering from
nausea. Later he was called to attend
Griffin and found him vomiting. He
treated both and left them to attend to
other patients, and on returning he talk
ed with Thigpen, who complained only of
a desire to sleep, soon passing away.
Dr. Pridgen was then sent for, but the
best efforts cf the two with Griffin were
of no avail.
Recently a young woman to whom
Griffin was engaged, married another.
A young woman having an engagement
with Thigpen took a trip to Morehead
with a rival of his. The two young men
on the principle that misery loves com
pany, got together and dwelt upon their
burdens and formed a plan for the
double suicide. On Sunday they were
boon companions.
Sunday night they took the schnapps
and spefit the night together. Yesterday
they w-ore taken with like symptoms.
Last night, aparently without pain, with
in a 1 few hours of each other they died.
Yesterday they were heard to say tjiey
had failed in the first effort and hoped
to succeed in the next. Griffin was heard
to sav that his life was not worth two
cents, and when advised that his love
bad wedded another, he remarked that
that signed his death warrant.
This evening a large escort accom
panied the remains of both Thigpen and
Griffin to the burying ground just beyond
the limits of Dover, where they were
buried, one beside the other. No autopsy
was held to determine the cause of death.
Goldsboro, N. C., Sept. 9.—A double
suicide is reported from Dover, a town
on the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail
road, about forty miles east of Golds
boro. Two young men who were disap
pointed in love affairs have suddenly
ended their lives by taking poison. Joe
Thigpen and Odis Griffin were buried in
the same grave this afternoon, the for
mer having passed away at 11 o'clock
last night and the latter dying at 2
o’clock this morning.
Ttye affair has cast a gloom over the
entire town. Both young men were well
known and much esteemed. Joe Thig
pen had been a clerk in the store of Mat
thew 7 Tydell for some years. The story
of his love affair is known well to the
people of the town. He was rejected
and decided to leave the scene of his
erstwhile happiness by a sad but sure
route.
Odis Griffin, a young man of twenty
two, was a clerk in the store of Frank
Hawkins and had wooed without success
the hand of one of the most fascinating
maidens of the community. Life held
out no inducements since the marriage
of his ideal about two weeks ago. He
had been brooding over his misfortune
ever since.
On Sunday both of the young men, who
had been inseparable friends for years
past, got together and recounted their
disappointments. They began drinking
and both decided to end their existence
by poison. The dose was too small to
do the work which they desired and yes
terday morning they tried again the
deadly drug and expired last night.
MB. F. W. HYMAN WOULD NOT
ACCEPT T9EIR NOMINATION,
The ‘‘Halifax Independents” Pat! Him Upon
Their Ticket for County Treasurer,
But He Befußed to Run.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Scotland Neck, N. Sept. 9.—The “in
dependents” in the county are getting
into straits already. Mr. E. W. Hyman,
a <;ood and true Democrat, who was nom
inated on the “independent” ticket for
county treasurer, yesterday notified the
“independents” that he would not ac
cent. He will remain with the straight
out Democrats. About fifteen or twenty
of the “independents" met at Halifax
yesterday* and took Mr. \Y. C. Whitaker
off the ticket for the Legislature, and put
him in Mr. Hyman’s place for treasurer.
In Mr. Whitaker’s place for the Legisla
ture they put T. H. Haylor.
The general observation is that the in
dependent. movement in this county will
inure to the interest of the Republicans,
and of course the Republicans are giving
it encouragement.
TO OPPOSE KITCHIN.
Probability of the “Independent*” Nominat
ing Litduay Patterson for Congress
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 9. —A meeting
of so-called independent or anti-Clark
Democrats of the district is billed here
for Thursday night, at which meeting it
is said Lindsey Patterson, of Winston,
will be launched as a candidate for Con-
gress against Kitchin to be endorsed by
the Republican Executive Committee.
A prominent Winston man just seen,
says he has no doubt Patterson would
accept, and that his disappointment over
Hill instead of himself being nominated
by the State Republican Convention for
Chief Justice, was assuaged by a prom
ise to run him for Congress. His law
partner, Jones, is the Democratic candi
date for judge, and it had never been
supposed he was anxious for political
honors. Leading Republicans seen to
night all favor him, but are waiting for
Senator Pritchard's counsel.
YOUTHFUL EDITOR GOES TO
JAIL FOR SMOKING CIG« RETTEB.
Violates an Ordinance of Elizabeth City and
SNow Refuses Offers of Friends to Go
on His Bond.
(Special to News and Observer.)
'Elizabeth City, N. C., Sept. 9.—Editor j
Saunders, of the Elizabeth City Tarheel, j
this morning was arrested and thrown I
int® prison for smoking a cigarette with- j
in the corporation limits of Elizabeth!
City. Recently the Board of Aldermen |
passed an ordinance making it an of
fense subject to a fine for any minor to
smoke cigarettes upoh the streets of
Elizabeth City. This morning Mr. W.
O. Saunders violated that law and was
arrested. He plead guilty. Mayor
Wilson imposed the stipulated fine.
YoAng Sanders refused to pay the fine
or give bond. He said: “The law is
unconstitutional, arbitrary for a free
born American people.” Saunders is
locked up. He refuses all offers of many
friends to go on his bond.
A ROW AT rHE PARK
A Pistol Flashes and John
linings FaMs.
George Lindsay Flies. Tinings Has a Ball in
His Thigh, Hardin and Mrs, Stefford
in Baltimore.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., Sept. 9.—There
was a .lively shooting scrap at Lindley
Park last night, and as a result John
Tinings is at home in bed, laid up with a
pistol ball in his thigh, all efforts by
Dr. Richardson to find or extract it so
I far being futile.
It seems that there was a large nun
! her of Proximity people out enjoying
j themselves. Tinings jumped out of a
| swing and stumbled against a man,
George Lindsay 7 , causing the latter to
. get mad.
After considerable time bad elapsed
! five reports of a pistol rang out on the
1 edge of the park, and Tinings was found
| lying on the ground, with blood issuing
I from a wound in the leg. He was
‘ brought to Dr. Richardson and his wound
attended to, and it is not thought the
result will be fatal. Lindsay took leg
bail, a warrant was issued for him this
morning and put in the hands of offi
cers.
Mark Hanna, policeman, has resigned
his job and another man is on duty at
* the Pork now.
J. E. Harding and Mrs. Stafford are in
Baltimore, according to a telegram in the
Richmond Dispatch. What they are do
ing to make a living is not stated, but
the notice reads as if they were or had
been permanently residents of the place.
Senator Pritchard’s son, Arthur, spent
tho day here yesterday on his way -o
I Chapel Hill. In driving out yesterday
. to give a lady friend an outing, his horse
became refractory too near a street car
w r ith the result that his buggy 7 was com
pletely overturned. Grave fears were
had for the young man, as ho was
thought to be crushed under the buggy.
When the debris was removed he bobbed
up serenely, having sustained no ser/ous
injury 7 . In a*n hour he had secured
another rig and was listening to congrat
ulations from the prettiest girl in
Greensboro, as he pulled the strings on
a high stepper, but along streets un
j adorned by the festive trolley,
j The military company are arranging
the presentation soon of a grand spec
tacular tragedy or comedy, the “Battle
of San Juan.”
REPUBLICANS IN THE FillH,
Convention Meets Today. No Nomination for
Congressmen Likely.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C.. Sept. 9. —Delegates
to the Republican Congressional Conven
tion, which meets here tomorrow, are
coming in. There will hardly he any
nomination of a candidate tomorrow.
The plan tonight is to leave that in the
hands of the executive committee as was
done in the State Convention, regarding
Walker and Connor, apd to await de
velopments.
Tobacco At Kocky Mount,
(Special to News and Observer.)
Rocky Mount, N. C., Sept. The
amount of bright leaf offered on the
Rocky Mount tobacco market this year is
unusually large. The sales for the month
of August show an increase of twelve
per cent in weight and twenty-eight .per
cent in the average price over the August
sales of last year. Double sales are ne
cessary in order to accommodate the
planters. Curing is over and high prices
encourage early marketing. Indications
arc that the crop, which is a little un
der the average, will bo sold much earlier
than usual.
The less a man knows about women
* the more he suspects they knov^^bout
■ him. ML .
PKICE FIVE CENTS.
DEAD By HIS GUILTY
WIFE^HAND
The Desperate Woman Then
Sends a Bullet Through
Her Own Breast.
(By the Associated Press.)
New York, Sept. 9.—Charles O’Niel, a
janitor, died in a hospital early this
morning, and ihs wife, Ida, was found
dead in their apartments with two bul
let wounds in her body. The tragedy
followed a quarrel in which O'Neil ac
cused his wife of having been unfaith
ful.
According to the story told by O'Niel,
shortly before he died, he learned last
month that while ho thought ihs wife
was out of the city on a vacation, in
reality she had been stopping at a hotel
in New York with another man. Last
night he accused her of this and had
told her that she would have to sign a
confession.
Taking an unloaded revolver from his
desk he put it to her head. She begged
him not to kill her, saying she would
confess.
He removed the revolver, but as he did
so she ran from the room. She camo
back in a few moment, according to
O’Neil, with a revolver and shot him
twice. Immediately afterward she
turned the revolver on herself and fired
twice. She fell, and, it seemed) died in
stantly.
A coroner who went to O’Neil's apart
ments, found O’Neil’s empty pistol, but
but he also found a slip of paper which
seems to indicate that O’Neil meant to
load and use the pistol. The paper was
written in a man’s handwriting:
“Three letters on the gas meter will
explain all.”
The letters were addressed to relatives
of O’Neil and asked for forgiveness for
what he was about to do. One of the
fetters disposed of his property and life
insurance to his sister.
_ -4
FIND COUNTERFEIT OUTFIT,
V? hile Looking For a Thief Lexington Officers
Make a Haul
(Special to News and Observer.)
Lexington, N. C., Sept. 9.—Some time
ago the hardware store of Peacock Z
Adder ton was broken into and several
guns, pistols, and ether things stolen.
I Suspicion pointed to Jake Everhart, and
a warrant was issued Saturday evening
for his arrest. The goods were said to
be concealed in the house of Lee Ever
hart. with whom Jake lived. A search
| warrant was issued, and the premises of
, Lee Everhart were searched. Two guns
I were recovered. The officers also ran
| across a counterfeit outfit at Ever
! hart’s, which, together wftj? some of the
| sprious coin, was taken in charge by the
i officers. No arrest has been made yet.
Jake is said to be an old offender, and
iT caught will be given twenty years In
the penitentiary. Chief Heitman and the
sheriff have warrants and the United
States will probably send a detective
here.
THE BOBESON CAMPAIGN
Opened by Dan Hugh McLean in a Vigorous
Speech at Lumberton.
(Special to Npws and Observer.)
Lumberton. N- C., Sept. S'. —Hon. Dan
! Hugh McLean opened tho campaign in
Robeson today. He is easily one of the
first speakers and strongest campaigners
in the State and our people heard his
vigorous enunciation of the principles of
Democracy with pleasure. His pica for
party liarntony as indispensable to party*
success an able one and his denun
ciation of independentism was scathing
and fearless. With such able exponents
to lead the fight the success of Democ
racy is assured.
Wbkefield Educational Kotes.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Wakefield, N. C., Sept. 9.—Wakefield
classical and Mathematical School opened
September Ist, with ihe largest number
of indents over enrolled at the opening
of any of the previous twenty sessions ol
th f * school's history.
As a result of the earnest and faith
ful work of Principals Sentellc and Pip
pin, an unusually large number of board
ing pupils have already entered school,
and a great many more will enter soon.
The work on the neev school building la
progressing rapidlv, and by the middle
of October Wakefield .can boast of hav
ing one of the best academies in Wake
county.
Republicans of Montgomery.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Troy, N. C., Sept. 9.—The Republican
county convention was held here Satur
day, and a full ticket nut out. The con
vention was almost featureless, the tick
et having been previously slated in cau
cus. While the ticket was being pre
pared, the audience, composed largely of
Democrats, was favored with an address
by John R. McCrary, Republican nominee
for solicitor in this district. For a while
he proceeded to hammer at the constitu
tional amendment, centering on the poll
tax clause, but soon found that he could
raise no enthusiasm and finally wound up
by exhorting Democrats to join the “in
dependent" movement. He said the ne
gro was out of it. There were not more
than a dozen present and thev took no
part io the convention. The ticket named
is considered very weak, and no uneasi
ness is felt among the Democratic ranks.